Melanella alba

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon = Melanella alba

| authority = da Costa, 1778

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• 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
• Turbo laevis Pennant, 1777

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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.da Costa, 1778. Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139832 on 2013-03-25.Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96.

page(s): 55Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.seBackeljau, 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)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)Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.