Melanopsis zonites Gassies, 1870

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 300

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

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scientific name

Melanopsis zonites Gassies, 1870
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Melanopsis zonites Gassies, 1870

Original source.

Gassies 1870: 147.

Type locality.

"Prope Saint-Vincent" [near Saint-Vincent], New Caledonia.

Remarks.

Brot (1879: 457) considered the species as a junior synonym of Melanopsis brevis Morelet, 1857 (which is a junior homonym of Melanopsis brevis Sowerby, 1826; see Melanopsis moreleti Pallary, 1916).