MolluscaBase name details
Melania (Platymelania) Leriche, 1938 †
1527996 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1527996)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Subgenus
Tiara brevissima L. R. Cox, 1926 † accepted as Potadoma brevissima (L. R. Cox, 1926) † (type by original designation)
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
fossil only
Leriche, M. (1938). Sur les fossiles recueillis dans les "Kaiso Beds" (Pléistocène inférieur) de la partie congolaise de la Plaine de la Semliki. <em>Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique.</em> 62: B118-B130.
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Leriche, M. (1938). Sur les fossiles recueillis dans les "Kaiso Beds" (Pléistocène inférieur) de la partie congolaise de la Plaine de la Semliki. <em>Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique.</em> 62: B118-B130.
page(s): 126, 127-128 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Van Damme, D.; Pickford, M. (2003). The late Cenozoic Thiaridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cerithioidea) of the Albertine Rift Valley (Uganda-Congo) and their bearing on the origin and evolution of the Tanganyikan thalassoid malacofauna. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 498: 1-83. [details] Available for editors [request]
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[request]source of synonymy Van Damme, D.; Pickford, M. (2003). The late Cenozoic Thiaridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cerithioidea) of the Albertine Rift Valley (Uganda-Congo) and their bearing on the origin and evolution of the Tanganyikan thalassoid malacofauna. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 498: 1-83. [details] Available for editors
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