Melanopsis ovularis Watelet, 1853

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 205-206

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

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scientific name

Melanopsis ovularis Watelet, 1853
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Melanopsis ovularis Watelet, 1853

Original source.

Watelet 1853: 18, pl. 2, figs 18-19.

Type horizon.

Cuisian, late Ypresian, Eocene.

Type locality.

“Mercin” [Mercin-et-Vaux], France.

Remarks.

Watelet attributed the authority to Deshayes, but there is no evidence that the description really derived from that author.