MolluscaBase - Elimia laqueata (Say, 1829)

(of Melania laqueata Say, 1829) Say T. (1829). Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America. (cont.). The Disseminator of Useful Knowledge; containing hints to the youth of the U. States, from the School of Industry. 2(18): 275-277 [9 September 1829].
page(s): 275 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Elimia laqueata (Say, 1829). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1116847 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

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original description (of Goniobasis mediocris I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 269 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis cerea I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 268 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis difficilis I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 267 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis duttonii I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 266 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis goodrichi Hinkley, 1920) Hinkley, A. A. (1920). A new species of Goniobasis. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 78: 1-3.
page(s): 1, fig [details]

original description (of Goniobasis lyonii I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 266 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis olivella I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 269 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis ornatella I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 269 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis sparus I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 267 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis viridicata I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 268 [details]

original description (of Melania athleta J. G. Anthony, 1854) Anthony, J.G. (1854). Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from the western states of North America. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 6: 80-130, plates 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16023670
page(s): 83, pl. 2, fig. 1 [details]

original description (of Melania blanda I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 13 [details]

original description (of Melania castanea I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 11 [details]

original description (of Melania clarkii I. Lea, 1852) Lea, I. (1852). Description of a new genus (Basistoma,) of the family Melaniana, together with some new species of American melaniae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 10: 295-302, pl. 30., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529862
page(s): 297, pl. 30, fig. 4 [details]

original description (of Melania costulata I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 14 [details]

original description (of Melania decora I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 14 [details]

original description (of Melania deshayesiana I. Lea, 1843) Lea, I. (1843). On fresh water shells (continuation) [sixteen new species of the family Melanianae]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(24): 241-243 [on or before 3 January 1843, teste Scudder (1885: 41)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521669
page(s): 242 [details]

original description (of Melania deshayesiana Reeve, 1860) Reeve, L. A. (1859-1861). Monograph of the genus Melania. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 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
page(s): species 278, pl. 39, fig. 278 [details]

original description (of Melania deshayesii Reeve, 1860) Reeve, L. A. (1859-1861). Monograph of the genus Melania. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 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
page(s): species 330, pl. 45, fig. 330 [details]

original description (of Melania gracilis I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 12 [details]

original description (of Melania laqueata Say, 1829) Say T. (1829). Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America. (cont.). The Disseminator of Useful Knowledge; containing hints to the youth of the U. States, from the School of Industry. 2(18): 275-277 [9 September 1829].
page(s): 275 [details]

original description (of Melania monozonalis I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 13 [details]

original description (of Melania mutata Brot, 1862) Brot, A. (1862). Matériaux pour servir a l'étude de la famille des Mélaniens. I. Catalogue systématique des espéces qui composent la famille des Mélaniens. Vol. 1. Jules-Guillaume Fick, Genève. 1-72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12114511
page(s): 37 [details]

original description (of Melania nitida I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 14 [details]

original description (of Melania nodulosa I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 15 [details]

original description (of Melania obtusa I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 13 [details]

original description (of Melania paucicosta J. G. Anthony, 1860) Anthony, J.G. (1860). Descriptions of new species of American fluviatile gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 55-72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26297202
page(s): 57 [details]

original description (of Melania plicatula I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 14 [details]

original description (of Melania sculptilis I. Lea, 1852) Lea, I. (1852). Description of a new genus (Basistoma,) of the family Melaniana, together with some new species of American melaniae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 10: 295-302, pl. 30., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529862
page(s): 297, pl. 30, fig. 3 [details]

original description (of Melania subcylindracea I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 12 [details]

original description (of Melania substricta Haldeman, 1840) Haldeman, S.S. (1844). A monograph of the freshwater univalve Mollusca of the United States, including notices of species in other parts of North America. 7. J. Dobson, Philadelphia. 1-32, plates 1-4, 1-14, plate 1.
page(s): backcover [details]

original description (of Melania torta I. Lea, 1845) Lea, I. (1845). Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 4(33): 162-168 [5 December 1845]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33100618
page(s): 165 [details]

original description (of Melania tenebralis I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of Melania]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 13 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis lindsleyi I. Lea, 1862) Lea I. (1862). Description of a new genus (Goniobasis) of the family Melanidae and eighty-two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 262-273 [after 27 May 1862]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26361234
page(s): 267 [details]

original description (of Melania nitens I. Lea, 1842) Lea, I. (1842). Description of new fresh water and land shells. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 8(2): 163-250 (+ 1 page contents, 1 page corrigenda), plates 5-27 [16 December; also issued separately as volume III of "Observations on the genus Unio"]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957426
page(s): 182, pl. 6, fig. 40 [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. Fisheries. 38(6): 247-282., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03632415.2013.785396 [details] Available for editors

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status source Whelan, N. V.; Johnson, P. D.; Garner, J. T.; Garrison, N. L.; Strong, E. E. (2022). Prodigious polyphyly in Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1(2): 8419: 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i2.8419 [details]

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Melania paucicostata. Anthony, 1860. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 57 - catalog no. 120551) (from synonym Melania paucicostata Hannibal, 1912)
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Melania substricta. Haldeman, 1844. A Monograph of the Freshwater Univalve Mollusca of the United States 7: cover - catalog no. 120616) (from synonym Melania substricta Haldeman, 1840)
To Barcode of Life
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elimia laqueata)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)

From editor or global species database

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Melania paucicostata. Anthony, 1860. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 57 - catalog no. 120551)

Hosted externally, from synonym

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Melania substricta. Haldeman, 1844. A Monograph of the Freshwater Univalve Mollusca of the United States 7: cover - catalog no. 120616)

Hosted externally, from synonym