MolluscaBase name details
Melania picta Hinds, 1844
1305270 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1305270)
unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Melania picta I. Lea, 1841)
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
Hinds, R. B. (1844). Descriptions of new species of <em>Melania</em> collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 14 (88): 8-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2331353#page/22/mode/1up
page(s): 8 [details]
page(s): 8 [details]
Type locality contained in Bismarck Archipelago
type locality contained in Bismarck Archipelago [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania picta Hinds, 1844. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1305270 on 2025-09-11
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Hinds, R. B. (1844). Descriptions of new species of <em>Melania</em> collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 14 (88): 8-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2331353#page/22/mode/1up
page(s): 8 [details]
additional source Hinds, R. B. (1844-1845). Mollusca. In: The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. "Sulphur", under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R. N., C. B., F. R. G. S., etc., during the years 1836-42. Smith, Elder and Co., London, v + 72 pp., 21 pls. [Pp. 1-24, pls. 1-7, July 1844; pp. 25-48, pl. 8-14, October 1844; p. i-v, 49-72, pl. 15-21, January 1845]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114183
page(s): 56, pl. 15, fig. 3 [details]
source of synonymy Starmühlner, F. (1993). Ergebnisse der österreichischen Tonga-Samoa Expeditoin 1985 des Instituts für Zoologie der Universität Wien: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süss- und Brackwasser-Gastropoden der Tonga- und Samoa-Inseln (SW-Pazifik). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 94/95: 217-306. Wien.
page(s): 60 [details]
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
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page(s): 8 [details]
additional source Hinds, R. B. (1844-1845). Mollusca. In: The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. "Sulphur", under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R. N., C. B., F. R. G. S., etc., during the years 1836-42. Smith, Elder and Co., London, v + 72 pp., 21 pls. [Pp. 1-24, pls. 1-7, July 1844; pp. 25-48, pl. 8-14, October 1844; p. i-v, 49-72, pl. 15-21, January 1845]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114183
page(s): 56, pl. 15, fig. 3 [details]
source of synonymy Starmühlner, F. (1993). Ergebnisse der österreichischen Tonga-Samoa Expeditoin 1985 des Instituts für Zoologie der Universität Wien: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süss- und Brackwasser-Gastropoden der Tonga- und Samoa-Inseln (SW-Pazifik). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 94/95: 217-306. Wien.
page(s): 60 [details]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
