MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Melania huegelii R. A. Philippi, 1843) Philippi, R. A. (1842-1850). <i>Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter Mithülfe mehrerer deutscher Conchyliologen</i>. Cassel, T. Fischer: Vol. 1: 1-20 [1842], 21-76 [1843], 77-186 [1844], 187-204 [1845]; Vol. 2: 1-64 [1845], 65-152 [1846], 153-232 [1847] ; Vol. 3: 1-50 [1847], 51-82 [1848], 1-88 [1849], 89-138 [1850]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41582
page(s): 61, pl. 2, fig. 8 [details]
original description
(of Melania siphonata Reeve, 1860) Reeve, L. A. (1859-1861). Monograph of the genus <i>Melania</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 12, pls 1-59 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1, June 1861; pls 2-9, November 1859; pls 10-17, December 1859; pls 18-25, 28-29, January 1860; pls 26-27, 30, February 1860; pls 31-33, May 1860; pls 34-45, September 1860; pls 46-47, November 1860; pls 48-49, December 1860, pls 50-51, March 1861; pls 52-53, April 1861; pls 54-59, May 1861]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11125701 [details]
original description
(of Melania (Acrostoma) hügeli var. compacta G. Nevill, 1885) Nevill, G. (1885). <i>Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta</i>. Part II. Gastropoda. Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia (contd.). x + 306 pp. Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta. ["1884"; after 25 January 1885]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44691
page(s): 270-271 [details]
original description
(of Melania blisteri H. C. Ray, 1953) Ray, H. C. (1953). A new species of the genus <i>Melania</i> from the Coromandel coast of India (Mollusca, Gastropoda : Family Melaniidae). <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 50(1): 111-112, pl. 1., available online at https://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/050/01/0111-0112.pdf
page(s): 112, pl. 1 figs 1-6, 1a-6a [details]
basis of record
Köhler, F.; Glaubrecht, M. (2007). Out of Asia and into India: on the molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the endemic freshwater gastropod Paracrostoma Cossmann, 1900 (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae). <em>Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 91(4): 627-651., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00866.x [details]