Melania hordacea Lamarck 1804 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:429-436

Belongs to Melania according to G. P. Deshayes 1825

See also Lamarck 1804

Sister taxa: Thiara (Balanocochlis), Thiara (Plotia), Thiara (Sermyla), Thiara (Setaeara), Thiara scabra, Thiara smartsvillensis, Thiara tjemoroensis, Thiara wheatlandensis, Melania buccinalis, Melania hunteri, Melania vaderensis, Melania packardi, Melania inquinata, Melania nitida, Melania multistriata, Melania texata, Melania dunkeri, Melania bullia, Melania decussata, Melania canicularis, Melania laevigata, Melania plicatula, Melania partschii, Melania claibornensis, Melania polita, Melania tenuiplica, Melania plicata, Melania herklotsi, Melania semistriata, Melania schlotheimii, Melania longissima, Melania abbreviata, Melania tenuis, Melania semiplicata, Melania taylori, Melania blainvillii, Melania formosa, Melania triticea, Melania plieningeri, Melania strigillata, Melania hoernesi, Melania dubia, Melania obovata, Melania alberti, Melania fettkei, Melania fragilis, Melania marginata, Melania concentrica, Melania acutestriata, Melania clavula, Melania miikensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Houdan (Defrance collection), which is in a Lutetian carbonate carbonate in France

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Houdan (Defrance collection)

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