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Melania acutocarinata I. Lea, 1841
1249202 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1249202)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
Melania acuticarinata I. Lea, 1841 · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling of...)
incorrect subsequent spelling of acutocarinata
Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of <i>Melania</i>]. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 14; note: as acuto-carinata [details]
page(s): 14; note: as acuto-carinata [details]
Type locality contained in Tennessee
type locality contained in Tennessee [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melania acutocarinata I. Lea, 1841. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1249202 on 2025-09-11
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Lea, I. (1841). On fresh water and land shells (continuation) [description of fifty-seven new species of <i>Melania</i>]. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 2(16): 11-15 [assumed publication date in March 1841 teste Scudder (1885: 27)]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521473
page(s): 14; note: as acuto-carinata [details]
basis of record Graf, D. L. (2001). The cleansing of the Augean Stables, or a lexicon of the nominal species of the Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) of recent North America, North Mexico. <em>Walkerana.</em> 11 (27): 1-124.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors
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additional source 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): 184, pl. 6 fig. 46 [details]
page(s): 14; note: as acuto-carinata [details]
basis of record Graf, D. L. (2001). The cleansing of the Augean Stables, or a lexicon of the nominal species of the Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) of recent North America, North Mexico. <em>Walkerana.</em> 11 (27): 1-124.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source 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): 184, pl. 6 fig. 46 [details]
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Spelling Originally spelled as Melania acuto-carinata [details]
