WoRMS taxon details
Lithasia jayana (I. Lea, 1841)
1117117 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1117117)
accepted
Species
Melania jayana I. Lea, 1841 · unaccepted (original combination)
Melania robulina A. Gould, 1851 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
(of Melania jayana I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [twenty-two new species of fresh water and land shells of the United States, chiefly from Alabama and Tennessee]. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 2(19): 81-83 [on or before 16 November 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 34)]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521509
page(s): 83 [details]
page(s): 83 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lithasia jayana (I. Lea, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1117117 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Melania jayana I. Lea, 1841) Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [twenty-two new species of fresh water and land shells of the United States, chiefly from Alabama and Tennessee]. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 2(19): 81-83 [on or before 16 November 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 34)]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521509
page(s): 83 [details]
original description (of Melania robulina A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). Descriptions of sixteen species of Melania. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3: 359-363., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870661
page(s): 363 [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
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page(s): 83 [details]
original description (of Melania robulina A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). Descriptions of sixteen species of Melania. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3: 359-363., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870661
page(s): 363 [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

Taxonomy
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]
Other
additional source
Minton, R. L. (2002). A cladistic analysis of <i>Lithasia</i> (Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae) using morphological characters. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 116(2): 39-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8270548 [details]




