MolluscaBase - Melania (Plotia) Röding, 1798

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Melania (Plotia) Röding, 1798

AphiaID

1430824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1430824)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Pyramidella Lamarck, 1799

Rank

Subgenus

Parent

Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798

Original name

Plotia Röding, 1798

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Species Melania (Plotia) mirifica A. Adams, 1854 accepted as Melania mirifica H. Adams, 1854 accepted as Thiara bellicosa (Hinds, 1844) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Melania (Plotia) scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) accepted as Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Melania (Plotia) orientalis A. Adams, 1854 (uncertain > unassessed, use in recent literature not established by editor)

Environment

marine, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Plotia Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 95 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania (Plotia) Röding, 1798. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1430824 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2020-04-09 08:51:11Z

created

Vinarski, Maxim

2022-08-30 07:32:28Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

Licensing

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Sources (2)

original description (of Plotia Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 95 [details]

basis of record Rensch, B. (1934). Süsswasser-Mollusken der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition. <em>Archiv für Hydrobiologie.</em> Suppl. 13, Tropische Binnengewässer Bd. V: 203-257.
page(s): 234 [details] Available for editors

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