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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136
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Melanopsis eumorphia Bourguignat, 1884
Original source.
Bourguignat 1884
: 146.
Type locality.
"Dans le Jourdain,
a
4
kilometres
au-dessus de la Mer Morte" [in the Jordan river, 4 km above the Dead Sea], Palestine/Jordan.
Remarks.
Apparently by mistake,
Heller et al. (2005
: 245, 247) listed the species in synonymy of
Melanopsis lampra
Bourguignat, 1884 as well as of
Melanopsis obliqua
Bourguignat, 1884, both of which they ranked as subspecies of
Melania costata
(Olivier, 1804).