Melanopsis bouei var. spinosa Handmann, 1882

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 259

† Melanopsis bouei var. spinosa Handmann, 1882

Original source.

Handmann 1882: 557.

Type horizon.

Pannonian, zone D, late Miocene.

Type locality.

"Kottingbrunn [...] Ziegelei a", Austria.

Remarks.

Papp (1953b) listed this variety together with Melanopsis bouei ventricosa Handmann, 1882 in synonymy of Melanopsis rarispina Lörenthey, 1902, although Handmann’s taxa were published earlier. The name ventricosa Handmann is a junior homonym of Melanopsis ventricosa Neumayr, 1880 and thus invalid, but spinosa is available and has priority over rarispina .