Melanopsis aquitanica Pallary, 1916

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 40-41

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/8039B557-A0D0-4207-A75A-124C521FA44F

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scientific name

Melanopsis aquitanica Pallary, 1916
status

 

Melanopsis aquitanica Pallary, 1916

Original source.

Pallary 1916: 79.

Type horizon.

Burdigalian, early Miocene.

Type locality.

"Dax, St-Paul, Mandillot" ( Grateloup 1840: captions of the plate "Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles fossiles de Dax"), France.

Remarks.

Introduced for Melanopsis dufourii sensu Grateloup, 1840, non Férussac, 1822. Wenz (1929: 2662) considered the taxon as a junior synonym of " Melanopsis major Férussac, 1823", which is not an available name.