MolluscaBase - Melania (Hemisinus) Swainson, 1840

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Melania (Hemisinus) Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

1470038 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1470038)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (unaccepted combination)

Accepted name

Hemisinus Swainson, 1840

Rank

Subgenus

Parent

Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798

Original name

Hemisinus Swainson, 1840

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Species Melania (Hemisinus) wesseli Brot, 1864 accepted as Aylacostoma wesseli (Brot, 1864) (basionym)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Hemisinus Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 341 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melania (Hemisinus) Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1470038 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2020-12-05 03:50:05Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-12-30 18:17:51Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (1)

original description (of Hemisinus Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 341 [details]