Meladomus purpureus

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B5D45D1B-4B52-4F0B-8AF6-B587F8857475
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5173321
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FFE632-0A12-F567-FF68-CA54A897F847
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Meladomus purpureus
status

Treatment

purpureus View in CoL

Ampullaria purpurea Jonas, 1839: 342 View in CoL , pl. 10, fig. 1. Type material —ZMB [“Zool. Mus. Berlin” ( Connolly 1912: 259), but not mentioned by Köhler & Glaubrecht (2006) and not found in 2014]. Type locality —“Schwanenflufs in Australien ” [Swan River, Australia; error; = Madagascar ( Troschel 1845: 216)]. Distribution — Madagascar ( Troschel 1845: 216), Zanzibar and Bagamoyo [ Tanzania] ( Philippi 1851: 22; Martens 1897b: 116), Mozambique ( Dohrn 1865: 233; Paetel 1873: 65, 1883: 76, 1888: 481).

Remarks. Synonym of olivacea G.B. Sowerby I , teste G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 68) and Connolly (1939: 556). Possible senior synonym of ovum Troschel , teste Brown (1980: 54) but purpurea and ovum both treated as valid species by Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 195), Brown (1994: 63) and Berthold (1991: 246), followed here, who all placed purpurea in Lanistes subg. Meladomus .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Architaenioglossa
Family	Ampullariidae
Genus	Meladomus