Melanopsis belonidaea Bourguignat, 1884

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 48

Melanopsis belonidaea Bourguignat, 1884

Original source.

Bourguignat 1884: 110.

Type locality.

"Ruisseau d’eau chaude à Ouargla (prov. de Constantine) et eaux thermales du Djérid, au nord du chott Tiraoun (sud de la Tunisie)" [in a warm water stream in Ouargla (Algeria) and thermal waters of Djerid, north of chott Tiraoun (southern Tunisia)].

Remarks.

Multiple spellings occur in the original work: " belonidoea " on p. 110 but " belonidaea " on p. 75. Apparently, the spelling on p. 110 is based on a typesetting mistake regarding the ligature ( “œ” instead of “æ”). Letourneux & Bourguignat (1887) acted as First Reviser sensu Art. 24.2.2, giving the name as " belonidaea ". The spellings " balonidaea " mentioned in Westerlund (1886: 125) and " belonidae " given in Pallary (1912: 14, 19, 22; 1926: 75) are incorrect spellings.