Melanopsis (Mesopotamia) mesopotamica var. minor Pallary, 1939

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 181

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F5F756BB-0DD5-514D-8BF0-C1FEE28DA0D0

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scientific name

Melanopsis (Mesopotamia) mesopotamica var. minor Pallary, 1939
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Melanopsis (Mesopotamia) mesopotamica var. minor Pallary, 1939 [invalid]

Original source.

Pallary 1939: 100, pl. 4, fig. 6.

Type locality.

"Dans le canal de la Butte de tir, à 7 km Sud de Baghdad" [in a trench of a firing hill (?), 7 km south of Baghdad], Iraq.

Remarks.

Ranked as a variety of Melanopsis nodosa Férussac in the plate captions. Junior homonym of Melanopsis buccinoidea minor Grateloup, 1838 (see Note 1).