Melanopsis bonellii var. minor Locard, 1878

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 176

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/A33848B8-179D-5C94-A494-33B357EEDEF4

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scientific name

Melanopsis bonellii var. minor Locard, 1878
status

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Melanopsis bonellii var. minor Locard, 1878 [invalid]

Original source.

Locard 1878: 56.

Type horizon.

Tortonian, late Miocene.

Type locality.

"À Tersannes près de Hauterives ( Drôme)” [at Tersanne near Hauterives], France.

Remarks.

Junior homonym of Melanopsis buccinoidea minor Grateloup, 1838 (see Note 1). Wenz (1929: 2669) considered the taxon as a junior synonym of Melanopsis bonellii Manzoni, 1870.