RAS taxon details
Melanella Bowdich, 1822
137978 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137978)
accepted
Genus
Balcis Leach, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- 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)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Bowdich, T.E. (1822). <i>Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves</i>. 79 pp., 19 pls. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45861
page(s): 27 [details]
page(s): 27 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2021) Register of Antarctic Species at: http://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 2025-09-12
RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 2025-09-12
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original description
Bowdich, T.E. (1822). <i>Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves</i>. 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). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 271 [details]
basis of record Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> suppl., 13: 1-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/49.supplement_13.1
page(s): 54 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 27 [details]
original description (of Balcis Leach, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 271 [details]
basis of record Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> suppl., 13: 1-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/49.supplement_13.1
page(s): 54 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
