A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea) Neubauer, Thomas A. ZooKeys 2016 2016-07-05 602 1 358 E64FE75D-EFB5-8D44-48FD-599DBDFA5C4E Bourguignat, 1884 Bourguignat 1884 Gastropoda Melanopsidae Melanopsis treatment-meta Animalia Melanopsis hiera Sorbeoconcha 134 135 Mollusca species hiera  Original source.  Bourguignat 1884: 121.  Type locality. "Sources du Jourdain; [...] d'Ain-el-Mellaha, dans la plaine du Bahr-el-Houle; [...] lacs d'Homset d'Antioche"[Sources of the Jordan; [...] AinMallahah, in the plains of the Hula valley; [...] lakes Homs and Anuk (also as Amik)], Syria.  Remarks. Introduced for  Melania costatasensu Kobelt, 1880, non Olivier, 1804. Bourguignat attributed the authority to Letourneux, but there is no evidence that the description really derived from that author. Heller et al. (2005: 243) listed the species as a junior synonym of  Melanopsis costata(Olivier, 1804) as well as of  Melanopsis saulcyiBourguignat, 1884.