Melanopsis seignetti var. pulchella Bourguignat, 1884

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 228

Melanopsis seignetti var. pulchella Bourguignat, 1884 [unresolved]

Original source.

Bourguignat 1884: 104.

Type locality.

"[Dans les oasis du sud de la province d’Oran; [...] l’oasis Sidi Yousef, à l’extrême sud de la frontière du Maroc; [...] ruisseau d’eau chaude à Ouargla]" [in the oases in the south of the province Oran; oasis Sidi Youcef, at the far southern border of Morocco; hot water stream at Ouargla], Algeria.

Remarks.

Homonym of the simultaneously introduced Melania costata pulchella Bourguignat, 1884 (see Note 1). The action of a First Reviser is required to determine which of both pulchella is to be treated as valid.