Melanopsis cerithiformis Watelet, 1851

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 72

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE5DD6DD-76EF-DBC2-0D85-13E9D98E9119

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scientific name

Melanopsis cerithiformis Watelet, 1851
status

 

Melanopsis cerithiformis Watelet, 1851

Original source.

Watelet 1851: 121, pl. 1, figs 1-2.

Type horizon.

Cuisian, late Ypresian, Eocene.

Type locality.

“Mercin” [Mercin-et-Vaux], France.

Remarks.

Cossmann (1888: 279) classified the species in the genus Faunus Montfort, 1810 ( Pachychilidae ). Wenz (1929: 2637) apparently agreed with that classification but listed it a second time (p. 2563) in synonymy of Semisinus [= Hemisinus ] resectus (Deshayes, 1834).