Melanella attenuata

Melanella attenuata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Eulimoidea
Genus: Melanella
Species: M. attenuata
Binomial name
Melanella attenuata
G.B. Sowerby II, 1866
Synonyms
  • Eulima attenuata G.B. Sowerby II, 1866
  • Eulima rossinsulae Preston, 1916
  • Melanella montebelloensis (Iredale, 1914)
  • Melanella rossinsulae Preston, 1916
  • Subularia montebelloensis Iredale, 1914

Melanella attenuata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of many species known to exist within the genus, Melanella. [1][2][3][4]

Distribution

This species occurs off the following locations: [1]


References

  1. 1 2 G.B. Sowerby II, 1866. Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 56. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=537089 on 2013-03-26.
  2. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.
  3. Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS)
  4. Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

External links

External identifiers for Melanella attenuata
WoRMS 537089


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