Melampus (gastropod)

Melampus (gastropod)
Melampus
A live Melampus sincaporensis on a human hand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata

Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Melampinae
Genus: Melampus
Montfort, 1810[1]

Melampus is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.

Species

Species in the genus Melampus include:

    • Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822
    • Melampus bullaoides (Montagu, 1808)
    • Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758)
    • Melampus cristalus
    • Melampus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1856
    • Melampus granifer
    • Melampus monile (Bruguiere, 1789)
    • Melampus morrisoni Martins, 1996
    • Melampus nucleus
    • Melampus nuxeastaneus Kuroda, 1949
    • Melampus paranus (Morrrison, 1951)
    • Melampus parvulus
    • Melampus phaeostylus
    • Melampus sculptus
    • Melampus sulculosus
    • Melampus taeniolatus

References

  1. ^ Montfort P. D. (1810). Conch. 2: 318.