Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order [unassigned] Caenogastropoda > Superfamily Eulimoidea > Family Eulimidae

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Balcis*	Leach, 1847	synonym

Children

Melanella alba (da Costa, 1778)
Melanella boscii (Payraudeau, 1826)
Melanella chariessa (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Melanella compactilis (Locard, 1892)
Melanella costellata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)
Melanella densicostata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella doederleini (Brusina, 1886)
Melanella frielei (Jordan, 1895)
Melanella gagei Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella glypta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella halorhaphe (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
Melanella insculpta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella jeffreysii (Tryon, 1886)
Melanella laurae (Friele, 1886)
Melanella levantina (Oliverio, Buzzurro & Villa, 1994)
Melanella lubrica (Monterosato, 1890)
Melanella lucida (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Melanella lutea Rodrigez Garcia del Castillo, 2000
Melanella martinii (A. Adams in Sowerby, 1854)
Melanella martynjordani (Jordan, 1895)
Melanella microsculpta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella myriotrochi Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella obtusoapicata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella orphanensis A. H. Clarke, 1974
Melanella petitiana (Brusina, 1869)
Melanella planisutis Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella polita (Linnaeus, 1758)
Melanella praecurta (Pallary, 1904)
Melanella pseudoglabra (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912)
Melanella pyramidalis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Melanella reticulata Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella richardi (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
Melanella rubrotincta (Jeffreys, 1867)
Melanella similior Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella spiridioni (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
Melanella stalioi (Brusina, 1869)
Melanella translucens (Monterosato, 1890)
Melanella trunca (Watson, 1897)
Melanella turbonilloides Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Melanella turrita Bouchet & Warén, 1986

Literature

original description	Bowdich T. E. (1822). Elements of Conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. 79 pp., 19 pl. Paris.
basis of record	Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96.

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Citation

Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2014). Melanella Bowdich, 1822. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137978