Melanella alba

Melanella alba
Shell of Melanella alba (Preserved specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Melanella
Species:
M. alba
Binomial name
Melanella alba
da Costa, 1778
Synonyms
  • Balcis Alba da Costa, 1778
  • Balcis montagui Leach MS, Gray, 1847
  • Eulima alba Da Costa, 1778
  • Eulima anglica G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
  • Eulima gervillei Collard des Cherres, 1830
  • Eulima porcellana A. Adams, 1851
  • Eulima subangulata G.B. Sowerby I, 1834
  • Melanella anglica Sowerby, 1834
  • Melanella laevis Pennant, 1777
  • Melanella montagui Leach MS, Gray, 1847
  • Melanella porcellana A. Adams, 1851
  • Melanella subangulata Sowerby, 1834
  • Melania gervillei Collard des Cherres, 1830
  • Strombiformis albus Da Costa, 1778

Melanella alba is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of many species known to exist within the genus Melanella. [1] [2][3][4][5][6][7]

Description

The measured length of a typical shell of this species generally ranges from approximately 10 mm to as large as 19 mm.

(Described in Latin as Eulima porcellana) The solid shell is subulate, white, and opaque. It has a slightly flexuous apex. It consists of thirteen to fourteen flattened whorls, which bear irregular, impressed lateral varices. The aperture is oblong-ovate. The anterior portion of the inner lip is thickened with callus and is scarcely reflected, while the margin of the outer lip is expanded in the middle. [8]

Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations at infralittoral and circalittoral levels:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Melanella alba (da Costa, 1778). 18 August 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 55
  3. ↑ Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se
  4. ↑ Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS)
  5. ↑ Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS)
  6. ↑ Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.
  7. ↑ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
  8. ↑ Adams, A. (1854). "Descriptions of new species of Eulima, Triphoris, etc. from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1851 (19): 276. Retrieved 18 August 2026.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Landau, B. M.; Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F. (2018). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 18 (2): 177-368.
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