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Melania muricata Forbes, 1856 †
1421339 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1421339)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
- Variety Melania muricata var. excavata J. Morris, 1856 † accepted as Tarebia acuta excavata (J. Morris, 1856) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
fossil only
Forbes, E. (1856). On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 162 pp., available online at https://books.google.at/books?id=YibPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 151, pl. 3, fig. 16 [details]
page(s): 151, pl. 3, fig. 16 [details]
Type locality contained in Great Britain
, Note "In the Bembridge series. It occurs also at...
type locality contained in Great Britain [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "In the Bembridge series. It occurs also at Headon Hill with Bulimus politus, and in the upper marine at Colwell Bay, and also at Hordwell." [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania muricata Forbes, 1856 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1421339 on 2025-09-11
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Forbes, E. (1856). On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 162 pp., available online at https://books.google.at/books?id=YibPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 151, pl. 3, fig. 16 [details]
page(s): 151, pl. 3, fig. 16 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Authority Authority commonly attributed to Wood (1846), but that record is a nomen nudum; also a nomen nudum in Edwards (1852). [details]Type locality "In the Bembridge series. It occurs also at Headon Hill with Bulimus politus, and in the upper marine at Colwell Bay, and also at Hordwell." [details]
