Melanopsis bouei Ferussac , 1823

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 58

† Melanopsis bouei Ferussac, 1823

Original source.

Férussac 1819-1851: Mélanopsides fossiles, pl. 2 (1823), figs 9-10 or Férussac 1823: 159, pl. 8, figs 9-10 (precedence not established; see introduction for discussion).

Type horizon.

Pannonian, late Miocene.

Type locality.

“Près de Bisentz, dans la vallée de la Marsch, en Moravie; [...] près de Scharditz" [near Bzenec, in the valley of the March river, in Moravia; near Šardice], Czech Republic.

Types.

Papp (1953b) designated the specimen illustrated in Férussac (1823, pl. 8, fig. 9) as lectotype (after Art. 74.5). Whereabouts of type specimen unknown.