Melanopsis retoutiana Gassies, 1861

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 234

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Melanopsis retoutiana Gassies, 1861
status

 

Melanopsis retoutiana Gassies, 1861

Original source.

Gassies 1861: 293, pl. 6, fig. 9.

Type locality.

“L’intérieur de la Nouvelle-Calédonie” [the interior of New Caledonia].

Remarks.

Brot (1879: 454) considered the species as a junior synonym of Melanopsis carinata Gassies, 1861, which is a junior homonym of Melanopsis carinata Sowerby, 1826 (see Melanopsis ducosi Pallary, 1916).