MolluscaBase name details
Melania dubiosa I. Lea, 1842
1389382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1389382)
unaccepted (junior synonym; a replacement name for preoccupied Melania dubia I. Lea, 1841)
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
Melania dubia I. Lea, 1841 · unaccepted (invalid, a junior homonym of M....)
invalid, a junior homonym of M. dubia Lamarck, 1804; replaced by M. dubiosa I. Lea, 1842
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): 166 [details]
page(s): 166 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania dubiosa I. Lea, 1842. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1389382 on 2025-07-01
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original description
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): 166 [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.
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page(s): 166 [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): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Spelling In the illustrated description, Lea (1842) used the name Melania dubiosa for the same taxon briefly described earlier (1841) as Melania dubia. It is here interpreted as an incorrect subsequent spelling. [details]
