Melampus (gastropod)

Melampus is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]

Melampus
A live Melampus sincaporensis on a human hand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:
Ellobioidea
Family:
Ellobiidae
Subfamily:
Melampinae
Genus:
Melampus

Montfort, 1810[1]
Synonyms
  • Auricula (Conovulus) Lamarck, 1816
  • Melampus (Melampus) Montfort, 1810 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Melampus (Micromelampus) Möllendorff, 1898 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Melampus (Signia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Pira H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Tifata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855

Species

Species in the genus Melampus include:

  • Melampus adamsianus L. Pfeiffer, 1855
  • Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822
  • Melampus boholensis Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Melampus bullaoides (Montagu, 1808)
  • Melampus carolianus (Lesson, 1842)
  • Melampus castaneus Mühlfeld, 1818
  • Melampus ceylonicus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843)
  • Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Melampus cristatus Pfeiffer, 1854
  • Melampus exaratus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Melampus fasciatus (Deshayes, 1830)
  • Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Melampus flexuosus Crosse, 1867
  • Melampus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Melampus granifer (Mousson, 1849)
  • Melampus liberianus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830)
  • Melampus luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Melampus monile (Bruguiére, 1789)
  • Melampus morrisoni Martins, 1996
  • Melampus mousleyi Berry, 1964
  • Melampus nucleolus Martens, 1856
  • Melampus nuxeastaneus Kuroda, 1949
  • Melampus olivaceus Carpenter, 1857
  • Melampus ovuloides Baird, 1873
  • Melampus paranus'' (Morrrison, 1951)
  • Melampus parvulus Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Melampus pfeifferianus Morelet, 1860
  • Melampus phaeostylus Kobelt, 1869
  • Melampus sculptus Pfeiffer, 1859
  • Melampus semiauratus Connolly, 1912
  • Melampus semisulcatus Mousson, 1869
  • Melampus siamensis Martens, 1865
  • Melampus sincaporensis Pfeiffer, 1855
  • Melampus sulculosus
  • Melampus tabogensis (C.B. Adams, 1852)
  • Melampus taeniolatus
  • Melampus trilineatus C.B. Adams, 1852
Taxon inquirendum
  • Melampus pusillus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Melampus viola (Lesson, 1831) (synonym: Auricula viola Lesson, 1831 )
Species brought into synonymy
  • Subgenus Melampus (Detracia) Gray, 1840 : synonym of Detracia Gray, 1840
  • Melampus acutispira Turton, 1932: synonym of Melampus parvulus Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Melampus aequalis Lowe, 1832: synonym of Ovatella aequalis (Lowe, 1832)
  • Melampus albus Gassies, 1865: synonym of Microtralia alba (Gassies, 1865)
  • Melampus biscayensis Fischer H., 1900: synonym of Pseudomelampus exiguus (Lowe, 1832)
  • Melampus caffer (Küster, 1843): synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830)
  • Melampus canariensis Nordsieck & Talavera, 1979: synonym of Pseudomelampus exiguus (Lowe, 1832)
  • Melampus ceylanicus [sic]: synonym of Melampus ceylonicus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843)
  • Melampus coffeus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Melampus exiguus Lowe, 1832: synonym of Pseudomelampus exiguus (Lowe, 1832)
  • Melampus fortis Mousson, 1869: synonym of Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Melampus gracilis Lowe, 1832: synonym of Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)
  • Melampus hemphillii (Dall, 1884): synonym of Sayella hemphillii (Dall, 1884)
  • Melampus kuesteri (Krauss in Küster, 1843): synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830)
  • Melampus microspira Pilsbry, 1891: synonym of Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Melampus monilis (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of Melampus monile (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Melampus ordinarius Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901: synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830)
  • Melampus patulus Lowe, 1832: synonym of Melampus luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Melampus singaporensis [sic]: synonym of Melampus sincaporensis L. Pfeiffer, 1855
  • Melampus stutchburyi L. Pfeiffer, 185: synonym of Ophicardelus sulcatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Melampus sulcatus Brazier, 1877: synonym of Ophicardelus sulcatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Melampus tetricus Morelet, 1864: synonym of Pleuroloba quoyi (H. & A. Adams, 1854)
  • Melampus umlaasianus (Küster, 1843): synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830)

References
  1. Montfort P. D. (1810). Conch. 2: 318.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Melampus Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160366 on 2015-02-24
  • Martins, A. M. de F. (1996) Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia 37: 163-332.


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