MolluscaBase - Pachychilus lacustris (Morelet, 1849)

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Pachychilus lacustris (Morelet, 1849)

To NHMUK collection (Melania lacustris Morelet, 1849; LECTOTYPE & PARALECTOTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:7752624)

AphiaID

1059076 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1059076)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pachychilus I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851

Original name

Melania lacustris Morelet, 1849

Synonymised names

Melania lacustris Morelet, 1849 · unaccepted (original combination)

Pachychilus (Glyptomelania) lacustris (Morelet, 1849) · alternative representation

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Subspecies Pachychilus lacustris amphibolus P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892
Subspecies Pachychilus lacustris lacustris (Morelet, 1849)
Variety Pachychilus lacustris var. pumila P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892 accepted as Pachychilus (Glyptomelania) lacustris amphibolus P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892 represented as Pachychilus lacustris amphibolus P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Melania lacustris Morelet, 1849) Morelet, A. (1849). Testacea novissima insulae Cubanae et Americae Centralis, Pars I. Paris: Baillière. 31 pp. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11485052
page(s): 25 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Guatemala

type locality contained in Guatemala [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pachychilus lacustris (Morelet, 1849). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1059076 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-02-08 14:50:37Z

created

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Melania lacustris Morelet, 1849) Morelet, A. (1849). Testacea novissima insulae Cubanae et Americae Centralis, Pars I. Paris: Baillière. 31 pp. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11485052
page(s): 25 [details]

basis of record Gomez-Berning, M.; Köhler, F.; Glaubrecht, M. (2012). Catalogue of the nominal taxa of Mesoamerican Pachychilidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa. 3381: 1–44.
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Berning M.I. (2020). Cerithioidea. Pp. 354-377, in: Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, ed. 4. Volume 5 (C. Damborenea, F.C. Rogers & J.J. Thorp): Keys to neotropical and Antarctic fauna. Academic Press.
page(s): 367, fig. 11.84G [details]