MolluscaBase name details
Melania papuensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
1305635 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1305635)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
recent only
Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 157, pl. 56, figs 45-47 [details]
page(s): 157, pl. 56, figs 45-47 [details]
Type locality contained in New Guinea
type locality contained in New Guinea [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melania papuensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1305635 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 157, pl. 56, figs 45-47 [details]
source of synonymy Cowie, R. H. (1998). Catalog of the nonmarine snails and slugs of the Samoan Islands. <i>Bishop Museum Bulletins in Zoology</i>. 3: 1-122.
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 157, pl. 56, figs 45-47 [details]
source of synonymy Cowie, R. H. (1998). Catalog of the nonmarine snails and slugs of the Samoan Islands. <i>Bishop Museum Bulletins in Zoology</i>. 3: 1-122.
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
