Melampus (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Melampus is a genus
of small air-breathing salt marsh
snail
s, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small air-breathing salt marsh
Salt marsh
A salt marsh is an environment in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and salt water or brackish water, it is dominated by dense stands of halophytic plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh...
snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata. This is the only family in the superfamily Ellobioidea, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)....
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Species
Species in the genus Melampus include:-
- Melampus bidentatusMelampus bidentatusMelampus bidentatus common name the "common marsh snail", or "eastern melampus", is a species of small, amphibious air-breathing snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Habitat :...
Say, 1822 - Melampus bullaoides (Montagu, 1808)
- Melampus coffeaMelampus coffeaMelampus coffea, commonly known as the coffee bean snail, is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Melampus cristalus
- Melampus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1856
- Melampus granifer
- Melampus monile (Bruguiere, 1789)
- Melampus morrisoni Martins, 1996
- Melampus nucleus
- Melampus nuxeastaneusMelampus nuxeastaneusMelampus nuxeastaneus is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :The distribution of this species include:* Japan* Pratas Islands, Taiwan...
Kuroda, 1949 - Melampus paranus (Morrrison, 1951)
- Melampus parvulus
- Melampus phaeostylus
- Melampus sculptus
- Melampus sulculosus
- Melampus taeniolatus
- Melampus bidentatus
- subgenus Micromalampus
- Melampus sincaporensisMelampus sincaporensisMelampus sincaporensis is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :The distribution of this species includes Japan and India....
Pfeiffer, 1855
- Melampus sincaporensis