Genus Melo Broderip in Sowerby, 1826

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melo Broderip, W.J. 1826. [Title unknown]. In, Sowerby, G.B. (ed). The Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 28. [223, 224].

  Type species:

   Voluta melo Lightfoot, 1786 by original designation (by tautonymy).
• Melocorona Pilsbry, H.A. & Olsson, A.A. 1954. Systems for the Volutidae. Bulletin of American Paleontology 35(152): 271-306, pls 25-28 [24].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, South China Sea, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, India (E).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Bondarev, I. 1995. A phylogenetic classification of Australia Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with the description of a new subgenus and a new subfamily. La Conchiglia 27(276): 25-38 [37] (subgenus Melocorona Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954 is no longer in use)

Knudsen, J. 1993. Redescription of the egg mass of Melo miltonis (Griffith and Pidgeon, 1834) (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Volutidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 14: 107-112 [110]

McMichael, D.F. 1962. Baler Shells. Australian Museum Magazine 14: 24-27, 22 text figs [24]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [35]

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [70] (Subgeneric arrangement; Melo ( 69) and Melocorona ( 70))

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [69]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [124]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED