Species Melanella major (Sowerby, 1834)

• Eulima major Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1834. Eulima. pls 52-53 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd).
• Eulima flexuosa Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [236].
• Eulima arcuata Sowerby, G.B. 1866. Monograph of the genus Eulima. pl. 1, 5-6 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15. [fig. 14].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [344-345]
• Hylleberg, J & Kilburn, R.N. 2003. Marine Molluscs of Vietnam: Annotations, voucher material, and species in need of verification. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 28: 1-299
• Liu, J.Y. (ed) 2008. Checklist of Marine Biota of China Seas. Beijing : China Science Press 1267 pp. [in English and Chinese]

 

Generic Combinations

• Melanella major (Sowerby, 1834).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [284]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	02-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	EULIMOIDEA	01-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		25-Jan-2012	MODIFIED