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 oomorpha De Stefani, 1877
Original source.
De Stefani 1877
: 284.
Type horizon.
Villafranchian, Plio-Pleistocene.
Type locality.
"Spoleto [...], Orciano [...], fra S. Gemini e Carsoli" [Spoleto, Orciano Pisano, Carsoli near San Gemini], Italy.
Remarks.
Introduced for
Melania buccinoidea
sensu
Ferussac
, 1823, non Olivier, 1801 (partim) as well as for formerly misidentified
Melanopsis narzolina
.
Esu and Girotti (1975
: 251) considered this taxon as a junior synonym of "
Melanopsis affinis
Ferussac"
, which is not an available name.