Melanopsis cerithiopsis Bourguignat, 1884

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 72

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

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scientific name

Melanopsis cerithiopsis Bourguignat, 1884
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Melanopsis cerithiopsis Bourguignat, 1884

Original source.

Bourguignat 1884: 130.

Type locality.

"Plaine du Bahr-el-Houlé (haut Jourdain) dans l’Aïn-el-Mellaha” [in the plains of the Hula valley (upper Jordan), in Aïn Mallahah], Israel.

Remarks.

Given as " cerithiopis " in heading of description, but as " cerithiopsis " throughout the rest of the work. Heller et al. (2005: 248) considered the species as a junior synonym of Melanopsis saulcyi Bourguignat, 1853.