Melania patula Bellardi & Michelotti, 1841

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 210

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

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scientific name

Melania patula Bellardi & Michelotti, 1841
status

 

Melania patula Bellardi & Michelotti, 1841

Original source.

Bellardi and Michelotti 1841: 163, pl. 7, figs 8-9.

Type horizon.

Late Miocene.

Type locality.

"Del Tortonese" [from the region of Tortona], Italy.

Remarks.

Bellardi and Michelotti attributed the authority to Bonelli (1827), which is an unpublished collection catalogue. Considered to belong in the genus Amphimelania by Wenz (1929: 2876).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sorbeoconcha

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Melania