Marine Species Traits - Miomelon Dall, 1907

WoRMS taxon details

Miomelon Dall, 1907

AphiaID

197005 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:197005)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Volutilithes philippiana Dall, 1890 accepted as Miomelon philippianum (Dall, 1890) (type by original designation)

Parent

Odontocymbiolini Clench & R. D. Turner, 1964

Original name

Miomelon Dall, 1907

Synonymised names

Proscaphella Ihering, 1907 † · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Miomelon alarconi Stuardo & Villarroel, 1974
Species Miomelon eltanini Dell, 1990
Species Miomelon philippianum (Dall, 1890)
Species Miomelon turnerae Dell, 1990
Subgenus Miomelon (Argentovoluta) Vazquez & Caldini, 1989 accepted as Argentovoluta Vazquez & Caldini, 1989
1. Species Miomelon (Argentovoluta) bottai Vazquez & Caldini, 1989 accepted as Argentovoluta bottai (Vazquez & Caldini, 1989)
Species Miomelon bottai Vazquez & Caldini, 1989 accepted as Argentovoluta bottai (Vazquez & Caldini, 1989)
Species Miomelon malvina Kaiser, 1977 accepted as Pachycymbiola scoresbyana (A. W. B. Powell, 1951)
Species Miomelon scoresbyanum A. W. B. Powell, 1951 accepted as Pachycymbiola scoresbyana (A. W. B. Powell, 1951) (original combination)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Miomelon Dall, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197005 on 2025-05-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-03-02 13:46:13Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2009-02-04 10:57:56Z

changed

Bail, Patrice

2012-12-26 00:36:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-09-05 05:36:04Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

2022-08-29 19:04:29Z

changed

Nielsen, Sven

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Nomenclature

original description (of Proscaphella Ihering, 1907 †) Ihering, H. von. (1907). Les mollusques fossiles du Tertiaire et du Crétacé supérieur de l'Argentine. <em>Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.</em> ser. 3, 7: xiii, 1–611, 18 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50857
page(s): 100, 202, 205 [details]

basis of record Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. <em>ConchBooks, Hackenheim.</em> 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS). [details]

Other

additional source Dell, R. K. (1990). Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 27: 1–311 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Diagnosis Small, broadly fusiform. Protoconch very small, smooth. Teleoconch axially and spirally sculptured.
Radula with prong-like central cups. [details]

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