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Melanella Bowdich 1822
- 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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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