le 9/06/02 12:42, Jesús López Llorens à [log in to unmask] a écrit :

> Hello friends:
> Days ago I acquired a beautiful unit of Melo that with himself not to
> identify, according to the retailer is melo diadema and segun my little
> bibliography is melo broderipi.  They are sinonimos?  or they are two
> different species?
> Please ayudenme to identify the unit you here have photographs it:
>
> http://es.geocities.com/malacologia/melo25.jpg
>
>
> Anticipated thanks.  A greeting.
It is a Melo broderipii (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834), from Philippino waters.
Melo diadema (Lamarck, 1811) is junior synonym of Melo amphora (Lightfoot,
1758) from Australia and Timor sea. Melo broderipii bears four columella
plaits whereas its related Melo aethiopica (L., 1758) from Indonesian waters
has only three.
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