Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)

RAMS taxon details

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

AphiaID

137978 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137978)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Eulimidae R. A. Philippi, 1853

Orig. name

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Synonymised names

Balcis Leach, 1847 · unaccepted

Direct children (8)

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Species Melanella antarctica (Strebel, 1908)
Species Melanella boscheineni Engl, 2004
Species Melanella convexa (E. A. Smith, 1907)
Species Melanella exulata (E. A. Smith, 1915)
Species Melanella guenteri Engl, 2004
Species Melanella sankurieae Engl, 2004
Species Melanella solitaria (E. A. Smith, 1915) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, based on preoccupied original name)
Species Melanella tumidula (Thiele, 1912) accepted as Bathycrinicola tumidula (Thiele, 1912)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Bowdich, T.E. (1822). Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. 79 pp., 19 pls. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45861
page(s): 27 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2024) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 2024-04-26

Regional species database citation

De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2024). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 2024-04-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-09-07 02:55:47Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-07-02 00:47:59Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-10-25 07:36:02Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

[taxonomic tree]

original description Bowdich, T.E. (1822). Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. 79 pp., 19 pls. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45861
page(s): 27 [details]

original description (of Balcis Leach, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 271 [details]

basis of record Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96.
page(s): 54 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Balcis Leach, 1847)
To Genbank (from synonym Balcis Leach, 1847)
To ITIS