A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea)
Neubauer, Thomas A.
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Bourguignat, 1884
Bourguignat
1884
Gastropoda
Melanopsidae
Melanopsis
treatment-meta
Animalia
Melanopsis sesteri
Sorbeoconcha
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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).