Melanoptychia bittneri Neumayr, 1880

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 54

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:65EFA276-7345-4AC6-9B78-DBE7E98D6103

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/230BA515-5711-0B22-6B6D-5B336B407C62

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scientific name

Melanoptychia bittneri Neumayr, 1880
status

[invalid]

Melanoptychia bittneri Neumayr, 1880 [invalid]

Original source.

Neumayr 1880c: 480, pl. 7, fig. 11.

Type horizon.

Langhian, middle Miocene.

Type locality.

“Žepj” [ Džepi], Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Remarks.

Neubauer et al. (2013: 135) considered Melanoptychia as a junior synonym of Melanopsis and this species as a junior secondary homonym of Melanopsis bittneri Fuchs, 1877. They introduced Melanopsis medinae as replacement name (see also Melanoptychia carusi Brusina, 1902).