MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Helix amarula Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 774 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Melania diadema I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851) Lea, I.; Lea, H. C. (1851). Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana, and of many new species of the genus <i>Melania</i>, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East , and now first described. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 18: 179-197 [28 February 1851, teste Duncan (1937:81)]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12858889
page(s): 194 [details]
original description
(of Thiara vouamica Bourguignat, 1890) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1-229, pls 1-8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12909251
page(s): 183; note: As Tiara (misspelling) [details]
original description
(of Melania cybele A. Gould, 1847) Gould, A. A. (1847). Descriptions of new shells, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 196-198, 200-203, 204-208 [March]; 209, 210-212, 214-215, 222-224 [June]; 225, 237-239 [July]; 251-252 [December]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9490880
page(s): 222 [details]
original description
(of Melania thiarella Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the Author, 232 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13181853
page(s): 166 [details]
original description
(of Melania holoserica Leschke, 1912) Leschke, M. (1912). Mollusken der Hamburger Südsee-Expedition 1908/1909 (Admiralitätsinseln, Bismarckarchipel, Deutsch Neuguinea). <em>Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten.</em> 29, 2. Beiheft: 89-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29977043
page(s): 128, fig. 19 [details]
original description
(of Melania villosa var. elongata Schepman, 1918) Schepman, M. M. (1918). On a collection of land-, freshwater- and marine Mollusca from northern New Guinea. <em>Zoologische Mededeelingen.</em> 4(1): 1-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41998399
page(s): 13 [details]
original description
(of Melania (Tiara) speciosa A. Adams, 1854) Adams, A. (1854). Descriptions of new species of <i>Semele, Rhizochilus, Plotia</i> and <i>Tiara</i> in the Cumingian collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 21 (1853): 94-99., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747225
page(s): 99. [details]
basis of record
Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 85(2): 199-275., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.200900004 [details]
additional source
Brown D. S. (1994). <i>Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance</i>, revised 2nd edition. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. i-x, 1-607.
page(s): 100 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Fischer-Piette, E. & Vukadinovic, D. (1974). Les Mollusques terrestres des Iles Comores. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Série, Série A, Zoologie, 84: 1-76, 1 plate. Paris.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source
Griffiths, O.L. & Florens, V.F.B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. i–xv, 1–185, pls 1-32.
page(s): 55 [details]
additional source
Fischer-Piette, E. & Vukadinovic, D. (1973). Sur les Mollusques Fluviatiles de Madagascar. <i>Malacologia</i>. 12: 339-378. [details]