Melanopsis fuchsi Brusina, 1884

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 125-126

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A2ACDD3F-A3D3-8024-D564-215814D7C17B

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scientific name

Melanopsis fuchsi Brusina, 1884
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Melanopsis fuchsi Brusina, 1884 [invalid]

Original source.

Brusina 1884a: 168.

Type horizon.

Transdanubian, Pannonian, late Miocene.

Type locality.

“Radmanest” (Fuchs 1870: 353) [Rădmănești], Romania.

Types.

The syntypes are stored in the Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb; no number indicated (Milan et al. 1974: 91).

Remarks.

Introduced for Melania costata sensu Fuchs, 1870, non Olivier, 1804. Junior homonym of Melanopsis fuchsi Handmann, 1882 (see Melanopsis confusa Strausz, 1941, Melanopsis handmanni Brusina, 1892 and Melanopsis hungarica Pallary, 1916, as well as Neubauer et al. 2014a: 461 for details).