Melanoptychia turrita Jekelius, 1944

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 288

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/CC11326D-FD61-7222-DB7F-1592832F12EB

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Melanoptychia turrita Jekelius, 1944
status

[invalid]

Melanoptychia turrita Jekelius, 1944 [invalid]

Original source.

Jekelius 1944: 138, pl. 57, figs 1-21.

Type horizon.

Early Pannonian, late Miocene.

Type locality.

"Turislav-Tal bei Soceni" [Turislav valley near Soceni], Romania.

Remarks.

Junior secondary homonym of Melanopsis turrita Rossmässler, 1854 and junior synonym of Melanopsis turrita Handmann, 1887, for which Pallary (1916: 84) had introduced Melanopsis hispidula as replacement name (see also Neubauer et al. 2014a: 463).