MolluscaBase name details
Melania oblita I. Lea, 1852
1248880 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1248880)
unaccepted
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
Lea, I. (1852). Description of a new genus (<i>Basistoma</i>,) of the family Melaniana, together with some new species of American melaniae. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 10: 295-302, pl. 30., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529862
page(s): 298, pl. 30, fig. 6 [details]
page(s): 298, pl. 30, fig. 6 [details]
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Lea, I. (1852). Description of a new genus (<i>Basistoma</i>,) of the family Melaniana, together with some new species of American melaniae. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 10: 295-302, pl. 30., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529862
page(s): 298, pl. 30, fig. 6 [details]
basis of record Graf, D. L. (2001). The cleansing of the Augean Stables, or a lexicon of the nominal species of the Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) of recent North America, North Mexico. <em>Walkerana.</em> 11 (27): 1-124. [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Tryon, G. W. (1873). Land and fresh-water shells of North America, Part IV. Strepomatidæ (American melanians). <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 253: 1-435., available online at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044106213671
page(s): 85 [details]
page(s): 298, pl. 30, fig. 6 [details]
basis of record Graf, D. L. (2001). The cleansing of the Augean Stables, or a lexicon of the nominal species of the Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) of recent North America, North Mexico. <em>Walkerana.</em> 11 (27): 1-124. [details] Available for editors

source of synonymy Tryon, G. W. (1873). Land and fresh-water shells of North America, Part IV. Strepomatidæ (American melanians). <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 253: 1-435., available online at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044106213671
page(s): 85 [details]