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Melania

Animals

freshwater

Lamarck, 1799WoRMS treats this as a synonym of Thiara.WoRMS 205560 ↗

356

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1902

First collected

2026

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Melania, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 9 pages

  2. 1996

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: Supplement

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 9 pages

  3. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  4. 2005

    Bibliography of and new taxa proposed by R.C.L. Perkins (1866-1955)

    Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  5. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2013: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  6. 2025

    First record of Mieniplotia scabra (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in Hawaiʻi: Another non-native introduction to Hawaiʻi’s already imperiled freshwater systems

    Hayes, K.A., Slapcinsky, J., Atta, C., Strong, E.E., Derne, B.T., Kinzler, T.P., Hill, M.M.Y., Kim, J.R. & Yeung, N.W. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2015

  8. 2014

    Melania baldwini Ancey, 1899, synonymized with Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae)

    Christensen, C.C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

249 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by A. Seale; A. Seale (Nuku Hiva).

From the collection

Melania, 100257Melania, 82843Melania, 82858Melania, 88494Melania, 92577Melania, 115968Melania, 104299Melania, 118600Melania, 119368Melania, 121146Melania, 168019Melania, 168338

Alive today

34 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.