Melanopsis kleinii Kurr, 1856

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 143

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:65EFA276-7345-4AC6-9B78-DBE7E98D6103

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0F9B7857-11FC-1903-DEFC-90C2369D935A

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scientific name

Melanopsis kleinii Kurr, 1856
status

 

Melanopsis kleinii Kurr, 1856

Original source.

Kurr 1856: 42.

Type horizon.

Middle-late Burdigalian, early Miocene.

Type locality.

"Zwiefalten und Andelfingen" ( Dunker 1848: 159), Germany.

Remarks.

Introduced for Melanopsis praerosa [= Melanopsis praemorsa ] sensu Dunker, 1848 and Klein, 1852, non Linnaeus, 1758. The name " kleini " as mentioned in Wenz (1929: 2762) is an incorrect subsequent spelling.