Melampus
A live Melampus sincaporensis on a human hand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Subfamily:	Melampodinae
Genus:	Melampus Montfort, 1810[1]
Synonyms
Auricula (Conovulus) Lamarck, 1816 Conovulus Lamarck, 1816 Melampus (Melampus) Montfort, 1810 · accepted, alternate representation Melampus (Micromelampus) Möllendorff, 1898 · accepted, alternate representation Melampus (Persa) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Melampus (Pira) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Melampus (Signia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 · accepted, alternate representation Pira H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 Tifata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 Tralia (Signia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (basionym)

Melampus is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.^[2]

Species

Species in the genus Melampus include:

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)