Melanopsis acutespira Bourguignat, 1884

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 28-29

Melanopsis acutespira Bourguignat, 1884

Original source.

Bourguignat 1884: 114.

Type locality.

"Dans l’aqueduc de la Palafanga, près Almazora (Espagne), aux environs de Mascara ( Algérie)” [in the aqueduct Palafanga near Almazora (Spain), near Mascara (Algeria)].

Remarks.

Bourguignat introduced this species for formerly misidentified Melanopsis dufourei [sic] graellsii sensu Rossmässler, 1854 and Melanopsis maroccana sensu Paladilhe, 1875 as well as a part of the material of the variety Melanopsis maroccana subgraellsiana Bourguignat, 1864. He apparently overlooked that Paladilhe (1875) had not referred to Melanopsis maroccana but had introduced the new variety Melanopsis maroccana zonatosubcostata . Since there was never a holotype or lectotype defined, the name acutespira comprises the syntypes of all three works; it remains nomenclaturally valid as name for the two specimens illustrated by Rossmässler (1854) and Bourguignat (1864).