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Melanella Reclinata
''Melanella'' is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.Gofas, S. (2011). Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 04 December 2022 Species According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species are recognised in the genus ''Melanella'' *''Melanella abida'' *''Melanella acanthyllis'' *''Melanella acicula'' *''Melanella aciculata'' *'' Melanella acuformis'' *''Melanella adamantina'' *''Melanella adiastalta'' *'' Melanella aequatorialis'' *''Melanella aethiopica'' *''Melanella aethria'' *''Melanella agulhasensis'' *''Melanella alba'' *''Melanella alertae'' *''Melanella alfredensis'' *''Melanella algoensis'' *''Melanella amabilis'' *'' Melanella amblia'' *'' Melanella amblytera'' *'' Melanella ameliae'' *'' Melanella anachorea'' *'' Melanella anapetes'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edward Bowdich
Thomas Edward Bowdich (20 June 179110 January 1824) was an English traveller and author. Life Bowdich was born at Bristol and educated at Bristol Grammar School. In 1813, he married Sarah Wallis, who shared his subsequent career. In 1814, through his uncle, John Hope Smith, governor of the British Gold Coast settlements, he obtained a writership in the service of the African Company of Merchants and was sent to Cape Coast. In 1817, he was sent, with two companions, William Hutchison and Henry Tedlie, to Kumasi on a mission to Osei Bonsu, the King of Asante, and chiefly through his skillful diplomacy the mission succeeded in its object of securing British control over the coast natives. In 1818, Bowdich returned to England, and in 1819 published an account of his mission and of the study he had made of the court of Kumasi, entitled ''Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, &c.'' (London, 1819). He donated his Ashanti collection to the British Museum on his return, although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanella Adamantina
''Melanella adamantina'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus '' Melanella''. First described by Léopold de Folin Léopold de Folin (Alexandre Guillaume Léopold de, Marquis de Folin, 28 August 1817 – 5 July 1896) was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the ''Musée de la mer'' (sea museu ... in 1867 and named by him as Eulima adamantina. Type specimen collected in Panama. References External links To World Register of Marine Species adamantina Gastropods described in 1867 {{Eulimidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Albert Smith
Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British zoologist, a malacologist. His father was Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury. Edgar Albert Smith was educated both at the North London Collegiate School and privately, being well grounded in Latin amongst other subjects, as his excellent diagnoses bear witness. Smith married in July 1876. Subsequently, his wife and he had four sons and two daughters. He gave more prominent attention to the fauna of the African Great Lakes and the marine molluscs of South Africa, and also the nonmarine mollusk fauna of Borneo and New Guinea. In the British Museum Smith was employed at the British Museum (now Natural History Museum) as an assistant keeper of the zoological department for more than 40 years, from 1867 to 1913. Edgar Smith's first work was in connection with the celebrated collection of shells made by Hugh Cuming and acquired by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanella Algoensis
''Melanella algoensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of multiple species known to exist within the genus, '' Melanella''.E. A. Smith, 1901. Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 56. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=600698 on 2013-03-25.Odhner, N.H.J. (1919). Contribution a la faune malacologique de Madagascar. Arkiv för Zoologi, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12(6): 1-52, 4 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 Distribution This species occurs in the following locations: * Madagascar * South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
