original description
(of Melania bitaeniata Conrad, 1834) Conrad, T. A. (1834). New fresh water shells of the United States, with coloured illustrations, and a monograph of the genus <i>Anculotus</i> of Say; also a synopsis of the American naiades. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1-84, plates 1-9. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16346317
page(s): 52, pl. 8, fig. 6 [details]
original description
(of Goniobasis fabalis I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (<i>Goniobasis</i>) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 266 [details]
original description
(of Goniobasis gibberosa I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (<i>Goniobasis</i>) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 266 [details]
original description
(of Goniobasis sulcata I. Lea, 1868) Lea, I. (1868). Descriptions of twenty-six new species of Melanidae of the United States. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 16: 151-153 [after 26 May 1868; pp. 151-152 before 9 November, p. 153 before 2 December 1868]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9768300
page(s): 151 [details]
original description
(of Melania basalis I. Lea, 1845) Lea, I. (1845). Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 4(33): 162-168 [5 December 1845]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33100618
page(s): 166 [details]
original description
(of Goniobasis prairiensis I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (<i>Goniobasis</i>) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 264 [details]
original description
(of Melania grata J. G. Anthony, 1860) Anthony, J.G. (1855). Descriptions of new species of Ancylus and Anculosa, from the western states of North America. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 6: 158-160, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16023748
page(s): 61 [details]
original description
(of Melania midas I. Lea, 1861) Lea, I. (1861). Descriptions of forty-nine new species of the genus <i>Melania</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 13: 117-123 [after 28 May 1861; before 30 September 1861]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26312823
page(s): 119 [details]
original description
(of Melania olivula Conrad, 1834) Conrad, T. A. (1834). Description of some new species of fresh water shells from Alabama, Tennessee, &c. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> 25(2): 338-343, plate 1., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30964339
page(s): 342, pl. 1, fig. 13 [details]
original description
(of Melania oppugnata I. Lea, 1852) Lea, I. (1852). Description of a new genus (<i>Basistoma</i>,) of the family Melaniana, together with some new species of American melaniae. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 10: 295-302, pl. 30., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529862
page(s): 300, pl. 30, fig. 9 [details]
original description
(of Melania protea I. Lea, 1845) Lea, I. (1845). Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 4(33): 162-168 [5 December 1845]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33100618
page(s): 166 [details]
original description
(of Melania inflata Haldeman, 1841) Haldeman, S.S. (1841). <i>A monograph of the Limniades or freshwater univalve shells of North America</i>, 3. Philadelphia: J. Dobson. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11651512
page(s): backcover [details]
original description
(of Melania straminea I. Lea, 1861) Lea, I. (1861). Descriptions of forty-nine new species of the genus <i>Melania</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 13: 117-123 [after 28 May 1861; before 30 September 1861]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26312823
page(s): 121 [details]
basis of record
Johnson, P. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Brown, K. M.; Burkhead, N. M.; Cordeiro, J. R.; Garner, J. T.; Hartfield, P. D.; Lepitzki, D. A. W.; Mackie, G. L.; Tarpley, T. A.; Tiemann, J. S.; Whelan, N. V.; Strong, E. E. (2013). Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. <em>Fisheries.</em> 38(6): 247-282., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03632415.2013.785396 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Whelan, N. V.; Johnson, P. D.; Garner, J. T.; Garrison, N. L.; Strong, E. E. (2022). Prodigious polyphyly in Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). <em>Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.</em> 1(2): 8419: 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i2.8419 [details]
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