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 choctavensis Aldrich, 1886
Original source.
Aldrich 1886
: 35, pl. 3, fig. 8.
Type horizon.
Early Eocene.
Type locality.
"Hatchetigbee, Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama", United States.
Types.
Palmer and Brann (1966
: 546) stated the the figured syntype was missing. A remaining syntype is stored in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, coll. no. 638787.
Remarks.
Classified within the marine genus
Bulliopsis
Conrad, 1862 (
Nassariidae
) by
Harris (1899
: 58) and
Allmon (1990
: 53).