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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ELLOBIIDAE: MELAMPODINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Ellobiidae (Family)
> Melampodinae (Subfamily)
> Melampus (Genus)
> luteus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Auricula lutea Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (original combination)
=Marinula patula (R.T. Lowe, 1832)
=Melampus (Melampus) luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) accepted, alternate representation
=Melampus patulus R. T. Lowe, 1832
Images: Melampus luteus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Syntype, Guam. 17.6mm. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ELLOBIIDAE: MELAMPODINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Ellobiidae (Family)
> Melampodinae (Subfamily)
> Melampus (Genus)
> luteus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Auricula lutea Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (original combination)
=Marinula patula (R.T. Lowe, 1832)
=Melampus (Melampus) luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) accepted, alternate representation
=Melampus patulus R. T. Lowe, 1832
Details: Melampus luteus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Distribution:
SW Pacific, Niue, Cook Islands, Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.232)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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