Melania buccinoidea Olivier, 1801

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 64

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/03A317E6-3592-EAA8-DE0D-4DF09BBDEF8B

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scientific name

Melania buccinoidea Olivier, 1801
status

 

Melania buccinoidea Olivier, 1801

Original source.

Olivier 1801: 297, pl. 17, fig. 8.

Type locality.

"De Scio, de presque toutes les îles de l’Archipel, de Crète, de Syrie" [from Chios, from almost all islands of the Archipelago, from Crete (Greece), from Syria].

Remarks.

Today combined as Melanopsis buccinoidea , the species is one of the few stable taxa in melanopsid taxonomy (e.g., Glaubrecht 1996).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sorbeoconcha

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Melania