Melanopsis aegyptiaca Blanckenhorn, 1901

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 30

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/F584C7F5-F690-14CC-2BCD-8CA40D3A27CB

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scientific name

Melanopsis aegyptiaca Blanckenhorn, 1901
status

 

Melanopsis aegyptiaca Blanckenhorn, 1901 View in CoL

Original source.

Blanckenhorn 1901: 414, pl. 15, figs 15-16.

Type horizon.

Pleistocene.

Type locality.

"In der Fossilienbank an der Tewfik-Moschee bei Kairo. [...] Wadi Urag, Sanur, Moschasch, Raijade" [in the fossil deposits at the Tewfik Mosque near Cairo. In the wadis Urag (?), Sannūr, Moschasch (?), Raijade (?)], Egypt.