Melampus is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.Bouchet, P. (2014). Melampus Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160366 on 2015-02-24
Species Species in the genus Melampus include:
Melampus acinoides Morelet, 1889 Melampus adamsianus L. Pfeiffer, 1855 † Melampus antiquus Meek, 1873 Melampus bidentatus Say, 1822 Melampus boholensis Pfeiffer, 1856 Melampus bullaoides (Montagu, 1808) Melampus carolianus (Lesson, 1842) Melampus castaneus Mühlfeld, 1818 Melampus ceylonicus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843) Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758) Melampus concretus Morelet, 1882 Melampus cristatus Pfeiffer, 1854 Melampus crossei de Morgan, 1885 Melampus cumingianus (Récluz, 1846) Melampus exaratus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus fasciatus (Deshayes, 1830) † Melampus feurtillensis Maillard, 1884 Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791) Melampus flexuosus Crosse, 1867 Melampus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1856 Melampus granifer (Mousson, 1849) Melampus granum Gassies, 1869 Melampus hypoleucus E. von Martens, 1897 Melampus liberianus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830) Melampus luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Melampus massauensis L. Pfeiffer, 1858 Melampus monile (Bruguiére, 1789) Melampus morrisoni Martins, 1996 Melampus mousleyi Berry, 1964 Melampus nucleolus Martens, 1856 Melampus nuxeastaneus Kuroda, 1949 Melampus olivaceus Carpenter, 1857 Melampus ovuloides Baird, 1873 Melampus paranus (Morrison, 1951) Melampus parvulus Pfeiffer, 1856 Melampus pascus Odhner, 1922 Melampus pfeifferianus Morelet, 1860 Melampus phaeostylus Kobelt, 1869 Melampus philippii (Küster, 1844) † Melampus pilula Tournouër, 1872 Melampus pulchellus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843) Melampus quadrasi Möllendorff, 1894 Melampus sculptus Pfeiffer, 1859 Melampus semiaratus Connolly, 1912 Melampus semiplicatus Pease, 1860 Melampus semisulcatus Mousson, 1869 Melampus sincaporensis Pfeiffer, 1855 † Melampus sinuosus (Cossmann, 1895) Melampus tabogensis (C.B. Adams, 1852) Melampus taeniolatus † Melampus tenuistriatus de Morgan, 1917 † Melampus tridentatus F. E. Edwards, 1852 Melampus trilineatus C.B. Adams, 1852 Melampus triticeus (Philippi, 1845) † Melampus turonensis (Deshayes, 1830) Melampus variabilis Gassies, 1863
Taxon inquirendum Melampus avenaceus Mousson, 1870 Melampus brevis Gassies, 1863 Melampus bridgesii Carpenter, 1856 Melampus commodus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus edentulus Martens, 1865 Melampus exesus Gassies, 1874 Melampus fuscus (Küster, 1843) Melampus maurus (Küster, 1844) Melampus mitralis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus mucronatus Gould, 1852 Melampus nitidulus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus obovatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus pallescens G. B. Sowerby I, 1839 (use in recent literature currently undocumented) Melampus pusillus (Gmelin, 1791) Melampus pyriformis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843) Melampus striatus Pease, 1861 Melampus strictus Gassies, 1874 Melampus sulculosus Martens, 1865 † Melampus tournoueri Locard, 1878 Melampus viola (Lesson, 1831) (synonym: Auricula viola Lesson, 1831 ) Melampus wilkei Dohrn, 1860 Melampus wolfii K. Miller, 1879 (status in recent literature not researched by editor) Melampus zealandicus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Species brought into synonymy Subgenus Melampus (Detracia) Gray, 1840 : synonym of Detracia Gray, 1840 Melampus acutispira Turton, 1932: synonym of Melampus parvulus Pfeiffer, 1856 Melampus aequalis Lowe, 1832: synonym of Ovatella aequalis (Lowe, 1832) Melampus albus Gassies, 1865: synonym of Microtralia alba (Gassies, 1865) Melampus biscayensis Fischer H., 1900: synonym of Pseudomelampus exiguus (Lowe, 1832) Melampus caffer (Küster, 1843): synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830) Melampus canariensis Nordsieck & Talavera, 1979: synonym of Pseudomelampus exiguus (Lowe, 1832) Melampus ceylanicus [sic]: synonym of Melampus ceylonicus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1843) Melampus coffeus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758) Melampus exiguus Lowe, 1832: synonym of Pseudomelampus exiguus (Lowe, 1832) Melampus fortis Mousson, 1869: synonym of Melampus flavus (Gmelin, 1791) Melampus gracilis Lowe, 1832: synonym of Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) Melampus hemphillii (Dall, 1884): synonym of Sayella hemphillii (Dall, 1884) Melampus kuesteri (Krauss in Küster, 1843): synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830) Melampus microspira Pilsbry, 1891: synonym of Melampus coffea (Linnaeus, 1758) Melampus monilis (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of Melampus monile (Bruguière, 1789) Melampus ordinarius Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901: synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830) Melampus patulus Lowe, 1832: synonym of Melampus luteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Melampus siamensis Martens, 1865: synonym of Melampus sincaporensis L. Pfeiffer, 1855 Melampus singaporensis [sic]: synonym of Melampus sincaporensis L. Pfeiffer, 1855 Melampus stutchburyi L. Pfeiffer, 185: synonym of Ophicardelus sulcatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus sulcatus Brazier, 1877: synonym of Ophicardelus sulcatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Melampus tetricus Morelet, 1864: synonym of Pleuroloba quoyi (H. & A. Adams, 1854) Melampus umlaasianus (Küster, 1843): synonym of Melampus lividus (Deshayes, 1830)
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Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1898). Verzeichnis der auf den Philippinen lebenden Landmollusken. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz. 22: 26-208 Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. Martins, A. M. de F. (1996) Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia 37: 163-332