Melanopsis sculptilis Pallary, 1920

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 246

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/0A999D25-061F-5A97-C9FE-AEE8BD48215D

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scientific name

Melanopsis sculptilis Pallary, 1920
status

 

Melanopsis sculptilis Pallary, 1920 View in CoL

Original source.

Pallary 1920b: 119.

Type horizon.

Plio-Pleistocene.

Type locality.

“Antimaki” ( Tournouër 1876: 449, 455) [ Antimácheia], Greece.

Remarks.

Introduced for Melania costata sensu Tournouër, 1876. It was indirectly considered as a junior synonym by Willmann (1981: 177), who was unaware of Pallary’s replacement name but synonymized Melania costata sensu Tournouër, 1876 with Melanopsis heldreichi Neumayr, 1880.