Melanopsis fusiformis Handmann, 1882

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 127-128

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/50DB5469-B543-5A4C-4475-D13BA566F0FD

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scientific name

Melanopsis fusiformis Handmann, 1882
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Original source.

Handmann 1882: 560.

Type horizon.

Pannonian, zone D, late Miocene.

Type locality.

"Kottingbrunn [...] Ziegelei a", Austria.

Remarks.

Junior homonym of Melanopsis fusiformis Sowerby, 1822. Pallary (1916: 82) introduced Melanopsis angusta as replacement name. Wenz (1929: 2742) considered the taxon as a junior synonym of Melanopsis haueri Handmann, 1882.