Stenomelania Explained

Stenomelania is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae known as thiarids. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Stenomelania include:

• Stenomelania acutospira (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania amabilis (G. von dem Busch)
• Stenomelania aspirans (Hinds, 1844) - type species of the genus Stenomelania^[2]
• Stenomelania blatta (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania boninensis (I. Lea, 1856)
• Stenomelania brenchleyi (Baird, 1873)
• Stenomelania clavus (J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania coarctata (J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania costellaris (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Stenomelania crenulata (Deshayes, 1838) - synonym: Stenomelania rufescens (Martens, 1860)
• Stenomelania denisoniensis (Brot, 1877)^[3]
• Stenomelania distinguenda (A. Brot)
• † Stenomelania dollfusi (Jodot, 1928)
• Stenomelania erosa (Lesson, 1831)
• Stenomelania graeffei (A. Mousson)
• |Stenomelania iaxa (A. Mousson)
• Stenomelania juncea (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Stenomelania lancea (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania litigiosa (A. Brot, 1877)
• Stenomelania loebbeckii (A. Brot, 1877)
• Stenomelania luctuosa (Hinds, 1844)
• Stenomelania lutosa (A. Gould, 1847)
• Stenomelania macilenta (Menke, 1830)
• Stenomelania mucronata (von dem Busch, 1853)
• Stenomelania persulcata (Mousson, 1869)
• Stenomelania plicaria I. von Born, 1778
• Stenomelania punctata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania rustica (Mousson, 1857)
• Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) - synonym: Bulimus torulosus Bruguière, 1789^{[4] [5]}
• Stenomelania uniformis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834^[6]
• Stenomelania waigiensis (Lesson, 1831)

Synonyms:

• Stenomelania arthurii (Brot, 1870): synonym of Stenomelania persulcata'' (Mousson, 1869) (junior synonym)
• Stenomelania funiculus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834): synonym of Stenomelania plicaria (Born, 1778)
• Stenomelania hastula (I. Lea, 1850): synonym of Stenomelania plicaria (Born, 1778)
• Stenomelania housei Lea, 1856 is a synonym of Sulcospira housei (Lea, 1856)
• Stenomelania rufescens (Martens, 1860): synonym of Stenomelania crenulata (Deshayes, 1838)
• Stenomelania semicancellata (von dem Busch, 1844): synonym of Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) (junior subjective synonym)

External links

• Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Stenomelania P. Fischer, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818571 on 2022-06-22
2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genustaxon?id=6022 "Genus taxon summary for Stenomelania"
3. Clark S. (2011). "Stenomelania denisoniensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T188945A8665967. Downloaded on 10 January 2016.
4. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=7329 "Species summary for Stenomelania torulosa"
5. Bruguière J. G. (1792). Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier, Paris, 3 pp. + j-xviij pp. + 757 pp., page 332.
6. Köhler F. & Rintelen T. (2011). "Stenomelania uniformis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T189354A8720112. Downloaded on 10 January 2016.