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Melanella Bowdich 1822

Creators

  • 1. Setor de Malacologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
  • 2. Setor de Malacologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & alexpim @ mn. ufrj. br; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7001 - 5820
  • 3. Laboratorio de Malacologia, Departamento de Pesca e Aqüicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil. mundovan 6 @ yahoo. de; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8476 - 6171

Description

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Type species. Melanella dufresnii Bowdich, 1822, by monotypy (Recent / Mauritius Islands, Indian Ocean).

Diagnosis. See Souza & Pimenta (2019b).

Remarks. Souza & Pimenta (2019b) discussed the shell morphology of the type species in detail. A concise diagnosis of the genus is doubtful since Melanella comprises a wide variety of species (Bouchet & Warén 1986; Souza & Pimenta 2019b). Here, we follow previous authors in considering a great diversity in shell morphology in the present genus.

Notes

Published as part of Souza, Leonardo Santos De, Pimenta, Alexandre Dias & Barros, José Carlos Nascimento De, 2021, Revision of the deep-sea Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda) from off Northeast Brazil, pp. 451-504 in Zootaxa 4927 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4542923

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E687A2FFABFFCBFF5F808AFEEE4188

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.4.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4542923 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFDFFFDAFFBEFFDEFFC88420FF8F4468 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/AED51D9E-1751-4010-A8E1-B72AE428821A (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03E687A2FFABFFCBFF5F808AFEEE4188 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/179905098 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/8069/taxon/03E687A2FFABFFCBFF5F808AFEEE4188.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Eulimidae
Genus
Melanella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Littorinimorpha
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Bowdich
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Melanella Bowdich, 1822 sec. Souza, Pimenta & Barros, 2021

References

  • Bowdich, T. E. (1822) Elements of Conchology. I. J. Smith, Paris, 79 pp.
  • Souza, L. S. & Pimenta, A. D. (2019 b) Taxonomy of littoral Melanella (Gastropoda: Eulimidae) from Brazil, with comments on the Eulima species described by Verrill and Bush (1900). Marine Biodiversity, 49 (1), 425 - 442. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 017 - 0825 - x
  • Bouchet, P. & Waren, A. (1986) Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Aclididae, Eulimidae, Epitoniidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico, Supplemento 2, 299 - 576. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 140762