Melanopsis graellsii Villa & Villa in Graells, 1846

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 135

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/6878077C-6BC1-D47C-22F7-648329AA7E8E

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scientific name

Melanopsis graellsii Villa & Villa in Graells, 1846
status

 

Melanopsis graellsii Villa & Villa in Graells, 1846

Original source.

Graells 1846: 17, [unnumbered plate], figs 16-19.

Type locality.

Spain [no locality indicated].

Remarks.

Graells (1846) indicated that the "brothers Villa" dedicated the species to him. The name " graellsi " as mentioned in Pallary (1924: 250) is an incorrect subsequent spelling. It is unclear why Pallary considered the species as a junior synonym of " Buccinum annulatum Chemnitz". That species, which is not available from Chemnitz (1795: 91, pl. 188, figs 1812-1813) according to Opinion 184 (ICZN 1944), is not even a freshwater snail but dwells in the southern Pacific ( Nassariidae ?).