taxonID	type	description	language	source
921887F80D6A8F54FF1AF944279EF101.taxon	description	According to the ICZN (1999: Article 73.1.4), there is a possibility of interpretation of Olivier’s drawing as the holotype, although this was not stated explicitly. In the beginning of the nineteenth century there was no custom of designating a holotype, but one could expect that Olivier (1801) illustrated a ‘ most typical’ specimen. The type locality, according to the ICZN (1999: Article 76 A. 1.4), may be restricted to Khios Island. There is no information about any geographical variation in the description. Thus, a solution is to designate a neotype (according to the ICZN, 1999: Article 75.3), to clarify the taxonomic status and type locality of a nominal taxon. Designation of the neotype of Melanopsis buccinoidea Olivier, 1801 The neotype has a shell (Figs 2 I – J) broadly conical in shape, smooth and dark, with growth lines hardly marked, with flat whorls and hardly visible sutures, and six whorls, with the apex corroded. The body whorl is higher than all the others together, the mouth is oval oblong, with sharp outer margins (without the lip), without sinuosities, and the columellar callus is white. Neotype measurements: Shell height 13.50 mm, shell breadth 7.24 mm, body whorl height 11.61 mm, aperture height 6.53 mm, aperture breadth 4.39 mm. The neotype is defined by its sequence of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), of 1 N 7 extraction number, GenBank number: MN 711507. Type locality: Nagos, Khios Island, Greece, 38 ° 33 ’ 29 ’ N; 26 ° 04 ’ 50 ’ E. It is deposited in the Museum of Natural History of the University of Wroclaw, Poland, signature: MNHW- 1343.	en	Falniowski, Andrzej, Heller, Joseph, Cameron, Robert A D, Pokryszko, Beata M, Osikowski, Artur, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Hofman, Sebastian (2020): Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (2): 483-507, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/190/2/483/5788722
921887F80D698F54FC90FB6A2049F237.taxon	description	Gambetta (1929: 104) described Melanopsis praemorsa var. astropaliae Gambetta, 1929 (for the original description see the Supporting Information, File S 1) from ‘ Stampalia’ [Astypalaia Island], between Naxos and Samos, thus within the range of our clade II (Naxos, Samos, Tinos). He described the completely smooth shell, black and purplish without brick brown. Considering the intraspecies colour variability in Melanopsis (Gambertta described it in detail), his description could be applied to our gastropods from Naxos, Samos and Tinos. The soft-parts’ coloration in the population from Naxos correspond with the one given by Gambetta for astropaliae. Certainly, there is too much emphasis on the shell coloration in his description, considering the wide variability of this character, clearly visible in our photographs. This clade is molecularly distinct, and Gambetta’s description is the only one published for a Melanopsis taxon in this region.	en	Falniowski, Andrzej, Heller, Joseph, Cameron, Robert A D, Pokryszko, Beata M, Osikowski, Artur, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Hofman, Sebastian (2020): Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (2): 483-507, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/190/2/483/5788722
921887F80D688F4BFF1AF944275AF584.taxon	description	In that publication, Roth (1839: 24, pl. 2, fig. 11) described M. wagneri (for the original description see the Supporting Information, File S 1) as having the ovate-oblong shell with black periostracum, apex often corroded, broad, ovoid, ovate aperture and prominent callus, in Smyrna [Izmir] collected earlier. The character states listed above, as well as the drawing of Roth (1839: pl. 2, fig. 8) fit our specimens belonging to clade C from Rhodes and the Peloponnese). The type locality at Izmir, western Turkey is not far from our localities. Gambetta (1929) suggested the occurrence of M. wagneri (as a form of M. praemorsa) on Rhodes.	en	Falniowski, Andrzej, Heller, Joseph, Cameron, Robert A D, Pokryszko, Beata M, Osikowski, Artur, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Hofman, Sebastian (2020): Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (2): 483-507, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/190/2/483/5788722
921887F80D768F4BFC82FD3720AEF6EB.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Melanopsis esperi Férussac, 1823, by original designation. Esperiana esperi belongs to a distinct clade, thus should not be classified in Microcolpia.	en	Falniowski, Andrzej, Heller, Joseph, Cameron, Robert A D, Pokryszko, Beata M, Osikowski, Artur, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Hofman, Sebastian (2020): Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (2): 483-507, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/190/2/483/5788722
921887F80D768F4BFC82FC67200FF19A.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Melania holandrii Pfeiffer, 1828, by subsequent designation by Welter-Schultes (2012: 36).	en	Falniowski, Andrzej, Heller, Joseph, Cameron, Robert A D, Pokryszko, Beata M, Osikowski, Artur, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Hofman, Sebastian (2020): Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (2): 483-507, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/190/2/483/5788722
921887F80D768F4BFF1AFB5A250EF31B.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Melanopsis acicularis Férussac, 1823, by subsequent designation by Cossmann (1909: 159). Glöer (2002) lists Microcolpia as a subgenus of Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877. However, our molecular data clearly show such the genus as polyphyletic, thus Microcolpia and Esperiana should be treated as distinct genera.	en	Falniowski, Andrzej, Heller, Joseph, Cameron, Robert A D, Pokryszko, Beata M, Osikowski, Artur, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Hofman, Sebastian (2020): Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the eastern Mediterranean: another case of morphostatic speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (2): 483-507, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz160, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/190/2/483/5788722
