MolluscaBase name details
Melania nitida I. Lea, 1841
1249390 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1249390)
unaccepted (invalid, a junior homonym of Melania nitida Lamarck, 1804; Melania nitens is a replacement name)
Melania nitens I. Lea, 1842 accepted as Elimia nitens (I. Lea, 1842) accepted as Elimia laqueata (Say, 1829)
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of <i>Melania</i>]. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 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]
page(s): 14 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania nitida I. Lea, 1841. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1249390 on 2025-09-12
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Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of <i>Melania</i>]. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 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]
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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status source Bieler, R. (2021). Isaac Lea's (1792-1886) substitutions and other modifications of his own names of molluscan species. <em>Malacologia.</em> 64(1): 1-56.
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 14 [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
[request]status source Bieler, R. (2021). Isaac Lea's (1792-1886) substitutions and other modifications of his own names of molluscan species. <em>Malacologia.</em> 64(1): 1-56.
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors
[request]