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 (Stylospirula) doncieuxi Wenz, 1919
[invalid]
Original source.
Wenz 1919b
: 65.
Type horizon.
Middle Lutetian, Eocene.
Type locality.
"Au Nord
d'Albas"
(
Doncieux 1908
: 204), France.
Remarks
.
Replacement name for
Melanopsis brevis
Doncieux, 1908, non Sowerby, 1826. For that homonym,
Pallary (1916)
had introduced the replacement name
Melanopsis abbreviata
, which is a junior homonym of
Melanopsis abbreviata
Brusina, 1874. (Note that Wenz 1919 was unaware of that name.)
Melanopsis doncieuxi
Wenz, 1919 is, however, invalid too it is a junior homonym of
Melanopsis doncieuxi
Pallary, 1916 (see
Melanopsis atacica
Wenz, 1928).