| Melanella | |
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| Melanella candida | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda | 
| Order: | Littorinimorpha | 
| Family: | Eulimidae | 
| Genus: | Melanella Bowdich, 1822  | 
| Synonyms | |
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Melanella is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.[1]
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species are recognised in the genus Melanella[1]
- Melanella abida Dall, 1927
 - Melanella acanthyllis (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella acicula (A. Gould, 1849)
 - Melanella aciculata (Pease, 1861)
 - Melanella acuformis (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875)
 - Melanella adamantina (de Folin, 1867)
 - Melanella adiastalta Souza, Pimenta & J. Barros, 2021
 - Melanella aequatorialis (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella aethiopica (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella aethria (Melvill, 1918)
 - Melanella agulhasensis (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella alba (da Costa, 1778)
 - Melanella alertae (Dell, 1956)
 - Melanella alfredensis Bartsch, 1915
 - Melanella algoensis (E. A. Smith)
 - Melanella amabilis (Brazier, 1877)
 - Melanella amblia (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella amblytera (Verrill & Bush, 1900)
 - Melanella ameliae Engl, 2007
 - Melanella anachorea Dall, 1927
 - Melanella anapetes Souza, Pimenta & J. Barros, 2021
 - Melanella antarctica (Strebel, 1908)
 - Melanella archeyi (Finlay, 1928)
 - Melanella arenularia (Gougerot in Perreau, 1969) †
 - Melanella arleyi Espinosa, Ortea & Magaña, 2001
 - Melanella atlantica (E. A. Smith, 1890)
 - Melanella attenuata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)
 - Melanella aucklandica (Suter, 1909)
 - Melanella augur (Angas, 1865)
 - Melanella badenia (Laws, 1939) †
 - Melanella baldra Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella becki (Turton, 1932)
 - Melanella bipartita (Mörch, 1859)
 - Melanella borealis (Bartsch, 1917)
 - Melanella boscheineni Engl, 2004
 - Melanella boscii (Payraudeau, 1826)
 - Melanella bovicornu (Pilsbry, 1905)
 - Melanella breviuscula (Dunker, 1875)
 - Melanella brunnimaculata (Kay, 1979)
 - Melanella bryani Pilsbry, 1918
 - Melanella callistemma Dall, 1927
 - Melanella candida (Marrat, 1880)
 - Melanella catalinensis Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella chariessa (Verrill, 1884)
 - Melanella chydaea (Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella cifara Bartsch, 1915
 - Melanella clavula (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella collator (Laws, 1944) †
 - Melanella compactilis (Locard, 1891)
 - Melanella conoidalis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1865)
 - Melanella conoidea (Kurtz & W. Stimpson, 1851)
 - Melanella convexa (E. A. Smith, 1907)
 - Melanella corintonis (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951)
 - Melanella cosmia Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella costellata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)
 - Melanella cumingii (A. Adams, 1854)
 - Melanella cunaeformis (May, 1915)
 - Melanella cuspidata (A. Adams, 1854)
 - Melanella cyclopia Scuderi, Tisselli & Micali, 2022
 - Melanella cylindrica (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella debilis (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella decagyra (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
 - Melanella decipiens (Hedley, 1899)
 - Melanella densicostata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella distorta (Defrance, 1823) †
 - Melanella doederleini (Brusina, 1886)
 - Melanella draconis Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella dubusi (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902) †
 - Melanella dufresnii Bowdich, 1822
 - Melanella eburnea (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824)
 - Melanella elenensis (Bartsch, 1924)
 - Melanella elsa Thiele, 1930
 - Melanella eulimoides (C. B. Adams, 1850)
 - Melanella exasperata (Preston, 1905)
 - Melanella exilis (Pease, 1863)
 - Melanella exulata (E. A. Smith, 1915)
 - Melanella falcata (Carpenter, 1865)
 - Melanella fasciata (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella flexuosa (A. Adams, 1854)
 - Melanella frielei (H. K. Jordan, 1895)
 - Melanella gagei Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella geoffreyi (Laws, 1936) †
 - Melanella glypta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella gracilis (C. B. Adams, 1850)
 - Melanella gradata (Cotton & Godfrey, 1932)
 - Melanella grandis (A. Adams, 1853)
 - Melanella gratiosa (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella grippi (Bartsch, 1917)
 - Melanella guenteri Engl, 2004
 - Melanella hadalis Knudsen, 1964
 - Melanella halia Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella halorhaphe (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
 - Melanella hastata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
 - Melanella hebes (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella hemphilli Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella hians (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella hypsela (Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1900)
 - Melanella ima Pilsbry, 1918
 - Melanella indica (Preston, 1905)
 - Melanella insculpta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella iotoides Bartsch, 1916
 - Melanella ira Dall, 1927
 - Melanella jeffreysii (Tryon, 1886)
 - Melanella jucunda (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella junieri Espinosa, Ortea & Magaña, 2006
 - Melanella kaiparaensis (Laws, 1939) †
 - Melanella kanaka Pilsbry, 1917
 - Melanella karolinae Engl, 2006
 - Melanella kermadecensis W. R. B. Oliver, 1915
 - Melanella kuronamako (Habe, 1952)
 - Melanella lactea (A. Adams, 1854)
 - Melanella lastra Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella laurae (Friele, 1886)
 - Melanella lautoides Finlay & Marwick, 1937 †
 - Melanella letsonae Pilsbry, 1917
 - Melanella levantina (Oliverio, Buzzurro & R. Villa, 1994)
 - Melanella lubrica (Monterosato, 1890)
 - Melanella luchuana (Pilsbry, 1901)
 - Melanella lucida (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
 - Melanella luminosa B. A. Marshall, 1997
 - Melanella lunata Pilsbry, 1918
 - Melanella magnifica (Bartsch, 1915)
 - Melanella major (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
 - Melanella mamilla (May, 1915)
 - Melanella maoria (Powell, 1940)
 - Melanella martinii (A. Adams, 1854)
 - Melanella martynjordani (H. K. Jordan, 1895)
 - Melanella marviva Espinosa, Ortea & Magaña, 2006
 - Melanella maui (Dell, 1952)
 - Melanella micans (P. P. Carpenter, 1865)
 - Melanella microsculpta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella mimus Pilsbry, 1918
 - Melanella minor (Pallary, 1904)
 - Melanella modesta (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella modesta Thiele, 1930
 - Melanella montereyensis Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella monterosatoi (Monterosato, 1890)
 - Melanella muelleriae (Sturany, 1903)
 - Melanella mundula (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella myriotrochi Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella nilae Engl, 2006
 - Melanella nisonida (Melvill, 1906)
 - Melanella obtusa (Laseron, 1955)
 - Melanella obtusoapicata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella ochsneri Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella odontoidea (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella ogasawarana (Pilsbry, 1905)
 - Melanella oldroydae Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella oleacea (Kurtz & W. Stimpson, 1851)
 - Melanella olssoni (Bartsch, 1924)
 - Melanella opaca (G. B. Sowerby II, 1865)
 - Melanella opalina (J. T. Marshall, 1901)
 - Melanella ophiodon Dall, 1927
 - Melanella orientalis Agamennone, Micali & Siragusa, 2020
 - Melanella orphanensis A. H. Clarke, 1974
 - Melanella orthophyes (Sturany, 1903)
 - Melanella otagoensis (Powell, 1927)
 - Melanella oxyacme (Suter, 1908)
 - Melanella oxytata (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella pandata (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella paraabida Souza, Pimenta & J. Barros, 2021
 - Melanella parallela Dall, 1927
 - Melanella parviapertura Landau, La Perna & Marquet, 2006 †
 - Melanella patutahiensis Marwick, 1931 †
 - Melanella paxillus (Hedley, 1904)
 - Melanella peninsularis Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella penna Dall, 1927
 - Melanella pepediazi Landau, La Perna & Marquet, 2006 †
 - Melanella perplexa W. R. B. Oliver, 1915
 - Melanella persimilis (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
 - Melanella petitiana (Brusina, 1869)
 - Melanella pisinna Rehder, 1980
 - Melanella planisutis Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella plioiberica Landau, La Perna & Marquet, 2006 †
 - Melanella polita (Linnaeus, 1758)
 - Melanella polygyra (Charlesworth, 1851) †
 - Melanella pontilis P. A. Maxwell, 1992 †
 - Melanella praecurta (Pallary, 1904)
 - Melanella producta (P. P. Carpenter, 1863)
 - Melanella pseudoglabra (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912)
 - Melanella puhana (Dell, 1956)
 - Melanella reticulata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella retrorsa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1865)
 - Melanella retusa (Pezant, 1911) †
 - Melanella richardi (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
 - Melanella robusta (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella roegerae (Cotton & Godfrey, 1932)
 - Melanella salvadori Castellanos, Rolán & Bartolotta, 1987
 - Melanella sankurieae Engl, 2004
 - Melanella sansibarica (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella sarissa (R. B. Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella scarifata Gofas & Rueda, 2014
 - Melanella seguenzai Di Geronimo & La Perna, 1999 †
 - Melanella shibana (Yokoyama, 1927)
 - Melanella siberutensis (Thiele, 1925)
 - Melanella similior Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella similis (d'Orbigny, 1852) †
 - Melanella solida (G. B. Sowerby II, 1865)
 - Melanella solidula (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
 - Melanella soliduloides (Habe, 1951)
 - Melanella solitaria (E. A. Smith, 1915)
 - Melanella sororcula (Wrigley, 1945) †
 - Melanella sowerbyi (Newton, 1891) †
 - Melanella spina (O. Boettger, 1893)
 - Melanella spinosa W. R. B. Oliver, 1915
 - Melanella spiridioni (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
 - Melanella stalioi (Brusina, 1869)
 - Melanella stamina Dall, 1927
 - Melanella subantarctica (Strebel, 1908)
 - Melanella subemarginata (Deshayes, 1862) †
 - Melanella subula (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella sulculata (Wrigley, 1945) †
 - Melanella tanabensis Takano, Tanaka & Kano, 2019
 - Melanella teinostoma (A. Adams, 1854)
 - Melanella teramachii (Habe, 1952)
 - Melanella thalia Bartsch, 1915
 - Melanella thersites (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
 - Melanella tia (Bartsch, 1926)
 - Melanella tortuosa (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
 - Melanella townsendi Bartsch, 1917
 - Melanella translucens (Monterosato, 1890)
 - Melanella trunca (R. B. Watson, 1897)
 - Melanella truncata (Suter, 1908)
 - Melanella turbonilloides Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella turrita Bouchet & Warén, 1986
 - Melanella tutamoensis Marwick, 1931 †
 - Melanella variabilis (Schepman, 1913)
 - Melanella vegrandis (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
 - Melanella versa Dall, 1927
 - Melanella waiaotea (Laws, 1941) †
 - Melanella waikomitica (Laws, 1939) †
 - Melanella wareni Landau, La Perna & Marquet, 2006 †
 - Melanella yamazii (Habe, 1952)
 - Melanella zugnigae Espinosa, Ortea & Magaña, 2001
 

Melanella martinii, abapertural view

Three shells of Melanella solidula
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use[2]
- Melanella australiensis (Thiele, 1930)
 - Melanella campyla (Watson, 1883)
 - Melanella carneola (Gould, 1861 in 1859–61)
 - Melanella curvata (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella dentaliopsis (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella flexa (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella labiosa (Sowerby II, 1834-b)
 - Melanella musta (Yokoyama, 1928)
 - Melanella nivea (A. Adams, 1861): species inquirenda
 - Melanella oblonga (Boettger)
 - Melanella pinguicula (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella reclinata (A. Adams, 1861)
 - Melanella scitula (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella semitorta (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella stenostoma (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella stylata (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella valida (A. Adams, 1861-b)
 - Melanella venusta (Pease, 1868-b)
 
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Melanella.
- 1 2 Gofas, S. (2011). Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 04 December 2022
 - ↑ OBIS : Melanella
 
- Leach, 1847 [in Gray] Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 20: 271; Placed on the Official List by Opinion 1739, 1993, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 50(3): 242
 - Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1–96. page(s): 54
 - Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
 
External links
- Bowdich, T.E. 1822. Elements of Conchology, including the fossil genera and animals. Part 1. Univalves. Paris : Smith pp. i–xi, 14–73, index 1–3, 19 pls, 2 tables
 - Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
 - Laseron, C. 1955. Revision of the New South Wales eulimoid shells. The Australian Zoologist 12(2): 83–107, pls 1–3, figs 1–78 [85–86, 101] [Euliamaustra is an alternative original spelling (p. 85); spelling Eulimaustra selected by First Reviser action by McMichael & Whitley, 1961, The Marine Zoologist, 1(8): 124]
 - Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
 
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