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 praemorsa f. curta " mentioned in Peres (1939) [unavailable] Locality . "Station 119. Ain Attig. Source pres de la route de Rabat a Casablanca a 13 kilometres de Rabat" [station 119 at Ain Attig. A spring near the road from Rabat to Casablanca, 13 km from Rabat], Morocco. Remarks. First of all, the name as given by Peres (1939) is a nomen nudum - Peres apparently considered the expression " curta " self-explanatory and did not describe it. Moreover, he obviously used the name not as separate taxon but rather as descriptive term to fit existing species into his morphological concept. He even indicated Melanopsis brevis Morelet, 1857 as its "type" .