Melanopsis fuchsi Handmann, 1882

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 125

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/9A0C239E-C936-E95E-F7E3-4BD593F1FC81

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scientific name

Melanopsis fuchsi Handmann, 1882
status

 

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Original source.

Handmann 1882: 556.

Type horizon.

Pannonian, zone D, late Miocene.

Type locality.

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

Remarks.

Wenz (1929: 2813) synonymized the species with Melanopsis pygmaea Hörnes, 1856. Jekelius (1944: 75) invalidly synonymized it with Melanopsis handmanni , which is the objective junior synonym of Melanopsis fuchsi Handmann, 1882.