WoRMS taxon details
Melongena Schumacher, 1817
205587 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205587)
accepted
Genus
Melongena fasciata Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Melongena melongena (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)
Galeodes Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Galeodes Olivi, 1791 [Arachnida]
Melongena (Miccosukea) Petuch, 1990 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melongena (Rexmela) Olsson & Harbison, 1953 · unaccepted
Pyrula (Melongena) Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted
- Species Melongena bispinosa (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
- Species Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Melongena melongena (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Melongena patula (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
- Subgenus Melongena (Myristica) Swainson, 1840 accepted as Volema Röding, 1798
- Subgenus Melongena (Pugilina) Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
- Species Melongena (Pugilina) morio (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Pugilina morio (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Subgenus Melongena (Rexmela) Olsson & Harbison, 1953 accepted as Melongena Schumacher, 1817
- Species Melongena (Rexmela) bispinosa (R. A. Philippi, 1844) represented as Melongena bispinosa (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
- Species Melongena (Rexmela) corona (Gmelin, 1791) represented as Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791)
- Subgenus Melongena (Volema) Röding, 1798 accepted as Volema Röding, 1798
- Species Melongena (Volema) hippocastanum (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Volema myristica Röding, 1798
- Species Melongena altispira Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1934 accepted as Melongena bicolor (Say, 1826) accepted as Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Melongena belknapi Petit de la Saussaye, 1852 accepted as Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Melongena bicolor (Say, 1826) accepted as Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Melongena fasciata Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Melongena melongena (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Melongena paradisaica (Röding, 1798) accepted as Volema paradisiaca Röding, 1798 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) (misspelling)
- Species Melongena paradisiaca (Röding, 1798) accepted as Volema paradisiaca Röding, 1798 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) (previous combination)
- Species Melongena perspinosa Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1934 accepted as Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Melongena pirum Dautzenberg, 1929 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) (unjustified emendation)
- Species Melongena sprucecreekensis J. K. Tucker, 1994 accepted as Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 64, 212 [details]
page(s): 64, 212 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melongena Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205587 on 2025-05-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 64, 212 [details]
original description (of Galeodes 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 [details]
original description (of Melongena (Rexmela) Olsson & Harbison, 1953) Olsson, A. A. & Harbison, A. (1953). Pliocene Mollusca of southern Florida with special reference to those from North Saint Petersburg. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 8: 1-457, pls 1-65.
page(s): 213 [details]
original description (of Melongena (Miccosukea) Petuch, 1990 †) Petuch, E. J. (1990). New gastropods from the Bermont Formation (middle Pleistocene) of the Everglades Basin. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 104(3): 96-104., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8501203
page(s): 99 [details]
page(s): 64, 212 [details]
original description (of Galeodes 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 [details]
original description (of Melongena (Rexmela) Olsson & Harbison, 1953) Olsson, A. A. & Harbison, A. (1953). Pliocene Mollusca of southern Florida with special reference to those from North Saint Petersburg. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 8: 1-457, pls 1-65.
page(s): 213 [details]
original description (of Melongena (Miccosukea) Petuch, 1990 †) Petuch, E. J. (1990). New gastropods from the Bermont Formation (middle Pleistocene) of the Everglades Basin. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 104(3): 96-104., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8501203
page(s): 99 [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. <em>Revista de Biologia Tropical.</em> 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Clench, W. J. (1954). <i>Galeodes</i>, <i>Busycon</i> and <i>Melongena</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 67(4): 139., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8514771 [details]
[request]additional source Clench, W. J. (1954). <i>Galeodes</i>, <i>Busycon</i> and <i>Melongena</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 67(4): 139., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8514771 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
