Melanopsis scabrida Youluo, 1978

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 243

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Melanopsis scabrida Youluo, 1978
status

 

†? Melanopsis scabrida Youluo, 1978

Original source.

Youluo 1978: 155, pl. 25, figs 5-6.

Type horizon.

Shahejie Formation (second Member), Eocene.

Type locality.

“山东垦利” [Kenli, Shandong Province], China.

Remarks.

Originally the gender was indicated as masculine (" scabridus "), but Melanopsis is feminine, which is why the name must be " scabrida ". Probably not a Melanopsidae (perhaps a Hydrobiidae or Pomatiopsidae ?).