Melampus coffeus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Ecology: This brackish species occurs in mangrove swamps, in rivers and estuaries, and can also be found on the roots of plants in lagoons and ditches just behind the shoreline (Van Regteren Altena 1969). This species forages for mangrove leaf litter at low tide and climbs tree trunks to avoid salt-water inundation during high tide (Proffitt and Devlin 2005).[1].

List of Habitats :

•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.10     Marine Neritic - Estuaries   
  
•     12     Marine Intertidal   
  
•     12.7     Marine Intertidal - Mangrove Submerged Roots   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.9     Artificial/Aquatic - Canals and Drainage Channels , Ditches   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Auricula biplicata • Auricula coniformis • Auricula olivula • Bulimus coniformis • Bulla coffea • Conovulus coniformis • Ellobium barbadense • Melampus microspira • Pedipes coniformis • Voluta coffea

Similar Species

Members of the genus Melampus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. bidentatus (Eastern Melampus) · M. bullaoides (Bubble Melampus) · M. coffeus (Coffee Melampus) · M. floridanus (Florida Melampus) · M. monile (Caribbean Melampus) · M. olivaceus (California Melampus)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the world. St. Petersburg, Fa: W.F. Webb, 19--. url p. 149, p. 19.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas, John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861-June 25, 1891; a memorial volume / edited with a biographical introd. New YorkColumbia University Press1910 url p. 100.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12 1861 - June 25, 1891; a memorial volume, ed., with a biographical introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York, The Columbia university press[c1910] url p. 100.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas: New York, Columbia University Press[c1910] url .
• An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names. [Brooklyn?]1954. url .
• Boston journal of natural history. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 163, p. 206, p. 28.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 192, p. 92.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 80 1938 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 516.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 177, p. 256.
• Catalogue of Auriculidae, Proserpinidae, and Truncatelidae in the collection of the British Museum, LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1857 url p. 20.
• East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 146, p. 260, p. 284.
• East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 146, p. 260, p. 284.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 265.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 202, p. 305.
• Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Geoffrey Nevill. Calcutta, Printed by order of the trustees, 1878-1884. url p. 216.
• Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url p. 209.
• List of duplicates of Japanese shells, marine, land, and fresh water, collected personally by Frederick Stearns. .. during his two visits to Japan, 1889-90, and 1892, and offered for sale or exchange. Detroit, J. F. Eby, printer, 1896. url p. 8.
• List of mollusca and other forms of marine life collected in the years 1889-1890, in Japan. Detroit, 1891. url .
• Modeling the response of mangrove ecosystems to herbicide spraying, hurricanes, nutrient enrichment and economic development / by Maurice George Sell, Jr. 1977. url p. 153, p. 311.
• On the mollusk fauna of the land-locked waters of Bermuda / Fritz Haas. 34 1952 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1952. url p. 103.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 209.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 8 1885 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 280, p. 282, p. 283, p. 747.
• Texas conchologist. [Houston, Houston Conchology Society], 1964- url , p. 20, p. 32, p. 51.
• The Museum. Albion, N.Y.: W.F. Webb, [1894-1900] url p. 126.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , , p. 119, p. 12, p. 120, p. 121, p. 123, p. 124, p. 125, p. 126, p. 180, p. 29, p. 30, p. 30, p. 47, p. 49, p. 50, p. 52, p. 53, p. 53, p. 54, p. 55, p. 55, p. 57, p. 57, p. 57, p. 81, p. 81.
• The archaeological use and distribution of Mollusca in the Maya lowlands New Orleans, 1969. url p. 114, p. 58.
• The genera of recent Mollusca: arranged according to their organization. By Henry Adams...and Arthur Adams. LondonJ. Van Voorst, 1858. url p. 82.
• The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America: described and illustrated by Amos Binney. Ed. by Augustus A. Gould. .. Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1851-78. url p. 163, p. 206, p. 28.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 4, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. 2011. Melampus coffeus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2687560
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16078722
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 76460
• IUCN ID: 222324
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 649412

Footnotes

1. Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. 2011. Melampus coffeus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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