Melanopsis desertorum Bourguignat, 1884

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 99

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/2448EEEA-2D44-4F9D-0182-536AB0E6CBDD

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scientific name

Melanopsis desertorum Bourguignat, 1884
status

 

Melanopsis desertorum Bourguignat, 1884

Original source.

Bourguignat 1884: 134.

Type locality.

"Ruisseaux entre Tarsous et Mersina (Anatolie)" [streams between Tarsus and Mersin], Turkey.

Remarks.

Heller et al. (1999: 56) considered the species as a junior synonym of Melanopsis buccinoidea (Olivier, 1801). In Heller et al. (2005: 248) in turn it is treated as a junior synonym of Melanopsis saulcyi Bourguignat, 1853.