Melanopsis scalaris Handmann, 1882 [invalid]

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 243-244

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/61A3A75F-DE9C-5A16-BCC1-C9CB67332A2F

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Melanopsis scalaris Handmann, 1882 [invalid]
status

 

Melanopsis scalaris Handmann, 1882 [invalid]

Original source.

Handmann 1882: 559.

Type horizon.

Pannonian, zone D, late Miocene.

Type locality.

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

Remarks.

Junior homonym of Melanopsis scalaris Gassies, 1856. Pallary (1916: 83) introduced Melanopsis limbata as replacement name. Wenz (1929: 2741) considered the taxon as a junior synonym of Melanopsis haueri Handmann, 1882.