Melanopsis planoidea Aldrich, 1895

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 216

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

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scientific name

Melanopsis planoidea Aldrich, 1895
status

 

Melanopsis planoidea Aldrich, 1895

Original source.

Aldrich 1895: 15, pl. 2, fig. 7.

Type horizon.

Early Eocene.

Type locality.

“Gregg’s Landing, Alabama", United States.

Types.

Harris (1899: 77) designated a lectotype, which is stored in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, coll. no. 638788 ( Palmer and Brann 1966: 755).

Remarks.

Palmer and Brann (1966: 755) considered the taxon as a junior synonym of Melanopsis anita Aldrich, 1886. According to Allmon (1990: 63), neither of both species belongs to the Melanopsidae .