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 nodosa Ferussac , 1822 Original source. Ferussac 1819-1851 : Melanopsides fossiles, pl. 1 (1822), fig. 13. Type horizon. Late Villafranchian, early Pleistocene. Type locality. "Entre Otricoli et le Vigne, route de Rome a Foligno" [between Otricoli and Le Vigne, at the road from Rome to Foligno], Italy. Remarks. The name first appeared in 1822 on the captions for plate 1 of the "Melanopsides fossiles" in Ferussac's "Histoire naturelle" (see also introduction for details). While Ferussac (1823) included also recent specimens under that name in his monograph on the Melanopsidae , the only specimen illustrated in 1822 in the "Histoire naturelle" was a fossil one from the Villafranchian of Italy. This fact remained widely unknown to biologists and paleontologists alike. The consequence, however, is that probably none of the specimens referred to as Melanopsis nodosa in the biological literature (e.g., Pallary 1939 , Glaubrecht 1993 , 1996 ) or the IUCN Red List ( Van Damme 2014 ), which reports it from Anatolia and the Middle East, actually correspond to the real Melanopsis nodosa . Fossil Italian specimens are often erroneously referred to as " Melanopsis affinis Ferussac" or " Melanopsis antiqua Ferussac" ( Pallary 1916 , Wenz 1929 , Esu and Girotti 1975 ), both of which are unavailable names.