MolluscaBase taxon details
Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786])
385403 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:385403)
accepted
Species
Cymbium flammeum Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (synonym)
Melo amphora amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) · unaccepted
Melo amphora knighti N. Jackson, 1954 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Voluta amphora [Lightfoot, 1786] · unaccepted (original combination)
Voluta armata Lamarck, 1811 · unaccepted (synonym)
Voluta cithara [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted (synonym)
Voluta diadema Lamarck, 1811 · unaccepted (synonym)
Voluta haustrum [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted (synonym)
Voluta regia Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Subspecies Melo amphora amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) accepted as Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786])
- Subspecies Melo amphora knighti N. Jackson, 1954 accepted as Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Voluta amphora [Lightfoot, 1786]) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 30 [details]
page(s): 30 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385403 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Voluta armata Lamarck, 1811) Lamarck [J.B.M. de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Volute (<i>Voluta</i>). <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 17: 54-80., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29406851 [details]
original description (of Voluta cithara [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 [details]
original description (of Voluta diadema Lamarck, 1811) Lamarck [J.B.M. de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Volute (<i>Voluta</i>). <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 17: 54-80., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29406851 [details]
original description (of Voluta haustrum [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 [details]
original description (of Voluta regia Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829) Schubert, H.G. & Wagner, J.A. (1829) Neues Systematisches Conchylien- Cabinet Angefangen von Martini und Chemnitz. Vol. 12. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, xii + 196 pp., pls. 214–237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30072696 [details]
original description (of Cymbium flammeum 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 Melo amphora knighti N. Jackson, 1954) Jackson, N. (1954). Albinism in volutes. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.</em> 73: 35-37, pl. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38776660
page(s): 35, pl. 2 fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Voluta amphora [Lightfoot, 1786]) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 30 [details]
basis of record Dharma, B. (2023). Species of <i>Melo</i> Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826 fom the Indonesian archipelago, with the description of two new species (Gastropoda: Volutidae). <em>Novapex.</em> 24(1): 1-20.
page(s): 8, figs 4A-N [details]
original description (of Voluta cithara [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 [details]
original description (of Voluta diadema Lamarck, 1811) Lamarck [J.B.M. de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Volute (<i>Voluta</i>). <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 17: 54-80., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29406851 [details]
original description (of Voluta haustrum [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 [details]
original description (of Voluta regia Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829) Schubert, H.G. & Wagner, J.A. (1829) Neues Systematisches Conchylien- Cabinet Angefangen von Martini und Chemnitz. Vol. 12. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, xii + 196 pp., pls. 214–237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30072696 [details]
original description (of Cymbium flammeum 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 Melo amphora knighti N. Jackson, 1954) Jackson, N. (1954). Albinism in volutes. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.</em> 73: 35-37, pl. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38776660
page(s): 35, pl. 2 fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Voluta amphora [Lightfoot, 1786]) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 30 [details]
basis of record Dharma, B. (2023). Species of <i>Melo</i> Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826 fom the Indonesian archipelago, with the description of two new species (Gastropoda: Volutidae). <em>Novapex.</em> 24(1): 1-20.
page(s): 8, figs 4A-N [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Melo amphora knighti Jackson, 1954, is also considered as a synonym of the present species [details]
To Conchology (Melo amphora GIANT)
To Conchology (Melo amphora LARGE)
To Conchology (Melo amphora ORANGE)
To Conchology (Melo amphora)
To Malacopics (Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) Australia, Queensland, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr.)
To Malacopics (Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) Australia, Western Australia, Port Hedland, collected August 1994, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
To Conchology (Melo amphora LARGE)
To Conchology (Melo amphora ORANGE)
To Conchology (Melo amphora)
To Malacopics (Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) Australia, Queensland, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr.)
To Malacopics (Melo amphora ([Lightfoot, 1786]) Australia, Western Australia, Port Hedland, collected August 1994, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
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