Melanopsis oomorpha De Stefani, 1877

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 202

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/2F65A69A-A3E1-C942-90BD-887CB124BBDB

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scientific name

Melanopsis oomorpha De Stefani, 1877
status

 

Melanopsis oomorpha De Stefani, 1877

Original source.

De Stefani 1877: 284.

Type horizon.

Villafranchian, Plio-Pleistocene.

Type locality.

"Spoleto [...], Orciano [...], fra S. Gemini e Carsoli" [Spoleto, Orciano Pisano, Carsoli near San Gemini], Italy.

Remarks.

Introduced for Melania buccinoidea sensu Férussac, 1823, non Olivier, 1801 (partim) as well as for formerly misidentified Melanopsis narzolina . Esu and Girotti (1975: 251) considered this taxon as a junior synonym of " Melanopsis affinis Férussac”, which is not an available name.