Melanopsis buccinoidea var. fusiformis Grateloup, 1838

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

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/7CA9891E-DB3A-5930-8F6A-2313034C9111

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scientific name

Melanopsis buccinoidea var. fusiformis Grateloup, 1838
status

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Melanopsis buccinoidea var. fusiformis Grateloup, 1838 [invalid]

Original source.

Grateloup 1838: 146.

Type horizon.

Burdigalian, early Miocene.

Type locality.

"Dax. [...] Mandillot", France.

Remarks.

Based on some of the illustrated syntypes of " Melanopsis antiqua Férussac, 1823" (actually, Grateloup referred to the illustrations of Melania buccinoidea in Férussac 1823; " Melanopsis antiqua Férussac” is not an available name). Junior homonym of Melanopsis fusiformis Sowerby, 1822.