Melania subrugosa d'Orbigny , 1850

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 271

† Melania subrugosa d'Orbigny, 1850 [invalid]

Original source.

d’Orbigny 1850: 300.

Type horizon.

Early Campanian, Cretaceous.

Type locality.

“Martigues” ( Matheron 1842: 293), France.

Remarks.

D’Orbigny (1850) considered Melanopsis rugosa Matheron, 1842 a Melania and the species name a secondary homonym of Melania rugosa Lea, 1842. However, Matheron’s species was published earlier (August 1842 vs. November/December 1842; for details on publication dates of Matheron’s work see note at the beginning of the Reference section). Melania subrugosa is thus a junior objective synonym of Melanopsis rugosa Matheron, 1842.