MolluscaBase - Lymnaea (Bulimnaea) megasoma Say, 1824

MolluscaBase name details

Lymnaea (Bulimnaea) megasoma Say, 1824

AphiaID

1586292 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1586292)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Bulimnea megasoma (Say, 1824)

Rank

Species

Parent

Lymnaea (Bulimnaea) Haldeman, 1841 accepted as Bulimnea Haldeman, 1841

Original name

Lymnaeus megasomus Say, 1824

Environment

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

Original description

(of Lymnaeus megasomus Say, 1824) Say, T. (1824). Class Mollusca. In: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs Say, Keating, and Calhoun, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c. H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia. 2: 256-266, plates 14-15, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13640689
page(s): 263, pl. 15, fig. 10 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lymnaea (Bulimnaea) megasoma Say, 1824. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1586292 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2022-06-05 17:32:07Z

created

Auffenberg, Kurt

2022-12-14 13:55:56Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

Licensing

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Sources (2)

original description (of Lymnaeus megasomus Say, 1824) Say, T. (1824). Class Mollusca. In: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs Say, Keating, and Calhoun, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c. H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia. 2: 256-266, plates 14-15, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13640689
page(s): 263, pl. 15, fig. 10 [details]

basis of record Latchford, F. R. (1927). Lymnaea (Bulimnaea) megasoma Say. The Nautilus. 40(4): 136-137., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523273 [details]