MolluscaBase name details
Melania laevis I. Lea, 1842
1249363 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1249363)
unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of M. laevis Gray, 1833, replaced by M. leaii Brot, 1862)
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
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): corrigenda page after p. 250 [details]
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.
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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): 25 [details] Available for editors
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Status Introduced as replacement name for preoccupied Melania laevigata I. Lea, 1841 but itself a junior homonym of Melania laevis...
Status Introduced as replacement name for preoccupied Melania laevigata I. Lea, 1841 but itself a junior homonym of Melania laevis Gray, 1833. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania laevis I. Lea, 1842. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1249363 on 2025-09-12
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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): corrigenda page after p. 250 [details]
original description 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): 25 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): corrigenda page after p. 250 [details]
original description 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): 25 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Status Introduced as replacement name for preoccupied Melania laevigata I. Lea, 1841 but itself a junior homonym of Melania laevis Gray, 1833. [details]
