Species Melampus (Melampus) fasciatus (Deshayes, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Auricula fasciata Deshayes, G.P. 1830. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 2, Part 2 pp. 1-144. [Date published 1 February 1830] [90].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no number 12 specimens, New Guinea and Philippines.

  Secondary source:

   Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. Monograph of Ellobium and Melampus, two genera of pulmoniferous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854: 7-13 [30 Dec. 1854] [11].
• Auricula granosa Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. 1851. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, pendant les années 1837–1840 sous les commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie, Mollusques et Coquille. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 5 132 pp. [38].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no number 1 specimen, Torres Strait.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [217] (based on original descriptions and an examination of types)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, supralittoral.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)