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Chilonopsis melanioides (Wollaston, 1878)

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 97326)
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 97326)

1828639 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1828639)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Eupulmonata (Superorder)
  9. Stylommatophora (Order)
  10. Achatinina (Suborder)
  11. Achatinoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Achatinidae (Family)
  13. [unassigned] Achatinidae (Subfamily)
  14. Chilonopsis (Genus)
  15. Chilonopsis melanioides (Species)
accepted
Species
Subulina melanioides Wollaston, 1878 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Subulina melanioides Wollaston, 1878) Wollaston, T. V. (1878). <i>Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena</i>. i-xi, [1], 1-588, 1-16 pp. London: Reeve. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18928631
page(s): 550 [details] 
Type locality contained in St. Helena  
type locality contained in St. Helena [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Chilonopsis melanioides (Wollaston, 1878). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1828639 on 2026-08-07
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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Subulina melanioides Wollaston, 1878) Wollaston, T. V. (1878). <i>Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena</i>. i-xi, [1], 1-588, 1-16 pp. London: Reeve. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18928631
page(s): 550 [details] 

basis of record Gerlach, J.; Griffiths, O.; Hume, J. P.; Louchart, A.; Sorrel, P.; Cairns-Wicks, R. (2025). Diversity of the extinct land snail genus <i>Chilonopsis</i> of St Helena (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Achatinidae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 1007: 176-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1007.3007
page(s): 202, figs 4h, 10e [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Extinction Recently Extinct. [details]
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