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Meladomus fultoni
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fultoni
Meladomus (Lanistes) fultoni Kobelt, 1912a: 6 [1912b: 28, pl. 27, figs. 1, 2]. 28. Type material — holotype [by monotypy]: SMF 7444. Type locality —“Victoria Nyanza” [Lake Victoria]. Distribution —Lake Victoria.
Remarks. The original description was based on a single specimen received from Sowerby and Fulton, which is the holotype by monotypy (Code, Art. 73.1.2). The specimen matches the illustration of Kobelt (1912b: pl. 27, figs. 1, 2). Valid species, teste Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 186).
Notes
Published as part of Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 3940 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288204
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Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Genus
- Meladomus
- Species
- fultoni
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Pilsbry, H. A. & Bequaert, J. T. (1927) The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo. With a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 53 (2), 69 - 602, pls. 10 - 77. [9 May; cover of article]