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Melania hunteri Hislop, 1860 †
1516483 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1516483)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
fossil only
Hislop, S. (1860). On the Tertiary deposits, associated with Trap-rock, in the East Indies. <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 16: 154-182., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35427895
page(s): 166, pl. 5, fig. 1 [details]
page(s): 166, pl. 5, fig. 1 [details]
Lectotype BMNH PIMG 1212
, Note "Pahádsingha [40 miles W.N.W. of Nágpur...
Lectotype BMNH PIMG 1212 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "Pahádsingha [40 miles W.N.W. of Nágpur city]" [= Paradshinga, Maharashtra], India [details]
Status Classification uncertain - the genus Melania is invalid and a synonym of Thiara. It is unlikely, however, that the...
Status Classification uncertain - the genus Melania is invalid and a synonym of Thiara. It is unlikely, however, that the Cretaceous species belongs in this extant genus. [details]
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Hislop, S. (1860). On the Tertiary deposits, associated with Trap-rock, in the East Indies. <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 16: 154-182., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35427895
page(s): 166, pl. 5, fig. 1 [details]
additional source Hartman, J. H.; Erickson, D. N.; Bakken, A. (2008). Stephen Hislop and his 1860 Cretaceous continental molluscan new species descriptions in Latin from the Deccan Plateau, India. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 51(6): 1225-1252., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00807.x [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 166, pl. 5, fig. 1 [details]
additional source Hartman, J. H.; Erickson, D. N.; Bakken, A. (2008). Stephen Hislop and his 1860 Cretaceous continental molluscan new species descriptions in Latin from the Deccan Plateau, India. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 51(6): 1225-1252., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00807.x [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Lectotype BMNH PIMG 1212 [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Classification uncertain - the genus Melania is invalid and a synonym of Thiara. It is unlikely, however, that the Cretaceous species belongs in this extant genus. [details]Type locality "Pahádsingha [40 miles W.N.W. of Nágpur city]" [= Paradshinga, Maharashtra], India [details]
