Melanopsis gearyae, Neubauer & Harzhauser & Georgopoulou & Mandic & Kroh, 2014
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.7 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D6E3D055-4390-4DC2-A9AC-0DBC40C2740F |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5076331 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9DCA32E8-DD3E-4F7D-B0F9-9CF430FE8410 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:act:9DCA32E8-DD3E-4F7D-B0F9-9CF430FE8410 |
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Felipe |
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Melanopsis gearyae |
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nom. nov. |
Melanopsis gearyae View in CoL nom. nov.
Melanopsis eleis View in CoL posterior Schütt in Symeonidis et al. 1986: 342, pl. 4, figs 8–9 [non Melanopsis impressa View in CoL posterior Papp, 1953].
Etymology. In honor of Dana H. Geary (University of Wisconsin, USA), who intensively studied the evolutionary mechanisms in the melanopsids of Late Miocene Lake Pannon.
Type locality. Unnamed outcrop 3 km N of Antirrio, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.
Age. "Upper Pliocene" (today probably referable to the lower Pleistocene).
Holotype. Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, no number indicated.
Discussion. This taxon displays a classic case of a primary homonym as a species-group name. The name " posterior " as a species-group name within the genus Melanopsis was already introduced by Papp (1953, p. 133) for a Late Miocene Lake Pannon species from Leobersdorf, Austria, namely Melanopsis impressa posterior Papp, 1953. Lueger (1980, p. 116) later elevated that taxon to species level.
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Melanopsis gearyae
| Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Georgopoulou, Elisavet, Mandic, Oleg & Kroh, Andreas 2014 |
Melanopsis eleis
| Oppenheim 1891 |
Melanopsis impressa
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