A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea) Neubauer, Thomas A. ZooKeys 2016 2016-07-05 602 1 358 AB07F458-5324-938C-7A19-6C2090576579 Bourguignat, 1884 Bourguignat 1884 Gastropoda Melanopsidae Melanopsis treatment-meta Animalia Melanopsis sesteri Sorbeoconcha 250 251 Mollusca species sesteri  Original source.  Bourguignat 1884: 119.  Type locality. "Petit cours d'eau aSadjour-Sou, entre Ain-Taibet Alep [...]; Ain-el-Bass, dans la plaine du Bahr-el-Houle(Syrie)" [small brook at Sadjour-Sou between Gaziantep (Turkey) and Aleppo (Syria) [...]; Ainel Bass, in the plains of the Hula valley (Israel)].  Remarks.  Heller et al. (2005: 232) considered the species as a junior synonym of  Melanopsis buccinoidea(Olivier, 1801).