A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea) Author Neubauer, Thomas A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-9941 Geological-Paleontological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria thomas.neubauer@nhm-wien.ac.at text ZooKeys 2016 2016-07-05 602 1 358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136 1313-2970-602-1 65EFA27673454AC69B78DBE7E98D6103 FFA86D39FFE2FFF3FF8AFFEBC209FFDE 126863 † Melanopsis affinis Handmann, 1882 Original source. Handmann 1882 : 558. Type horizon. Pannonian, zone D, late Miocene. Type locality. "Kottingbrunn [...] Ziegelei a", Austria. Remarks. Pallary (1916) considered the species a junior homonym of " Melanopsis affinis Ferussac" and introduced Melanopsis subaffinis as replacement name. " Melanopsis affinis Ferussac" is, however, not an available name (see below) and Melanopsis subaffinis is thus a junior objective synonym of Melanopsis affinis Handmann, 1882. Wenz (1929 : 2674, 2681) synonymized both Handmann's and Pallary's species with Melanopsis bouei Ferussac , 1823.