Melanopsis brevis Sowerby, 1826

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 60

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/44D73967-333C-F866-278B-155CED2830FD

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scientific name

Melanopsis brevis Sowerby, 1826
status

 

Melanopsis brevis Sowerby, 1826

Original source.

Sowerby 1826-1829: 42, pl. 523, fig. 2.

Type horizon.

Eocene.

Type locality.

"Upon the Hampshire coast", United Kingdom.

Remarks.

After Cossmann (1909: 153) this species belongs in the genus Coptostylus Sandberger, 1872 ( Thiaridae ).