MolluscaBase name details
Melania nitens I. Lea, 1842
1389379 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1389379)
unaccepted (original combination; a replacement name for Melania nitida I. Lea, 1841)
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
Melania nitida I. Lea, 1841 · unaccepted (invalid, a junior homonym of...)
invalid, a junior homonym of Melania nitida Lamarck, 1804; Melania nitens is a replacement name
Lea, I. (1842). Description of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 8(2): 163-250 (+ 1 page contents, 1 page corrigenda), plates 5-27 [16 December; also issued separately as volume III of "Observations on the genus <I>Unio</I>"]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957426
page(s): 182, pl. 6, fig. 40 [details]
page(s): 182, pl. 6, fig. 40 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania nitens I. Lea, 1842. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1389379 on 2025-07-12
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Lea, I. (1842). Description of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 8(2): 163-250 (+ 1 page contents, 1 page corrigenda), plates 5-27 [16 December; also issued separately as volume III of "Observations on the genus <I>Unio</I>"]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957426
page(s): 182, pl. 6, fig. 40 [details]
basis of record Lea, I. (1842). Description of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 8(2): 163-250 (+ 1 page contents, 1 page corrigenda), plates 5-27 [16 December; also issued separately as volume III of "Observations on the genus <I>Unio</I>"]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957426
page(s): 182 [details]
status source Bieler, R. (2021). Isaac Lea's (1792-1886) substitutions and other modifications of his own names of molluscan species. <em>Malacologia.</em> 64(1): 1-56.
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 182, pl. 6, fig. 40 [details]
basis of record Lea, I. (1842). Description of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 8(2): 163-250 (+ 1 page contents, 1 page corrigenda), plates 5-27 [16 December; also issued separately as volume III of "Observations on the genus <I>Unio</I>"]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957426
page(s): 182 [details]
status source Bieler, R. (2021). Isaac Lea's (1792-1886) substitutions and other modifications of his own names of molluscan species. <em>Malacologia.</em> 64(1): 1-56.
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors
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Synonymy In the illustrated description, Lea (1842) used the name Melania nitens for the same taxon briefly described earlier (1841) as Melania nitida. Both names were used by subsequent authors. [details]
