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 hiera
Sorbeoconcha
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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.