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 buccinoidea var.
γ
) antiquua elongata
Ferussac
, 1822
Original source.
Ferussac
1819-1851
:
Melanopsides
fossiles, pl. 1 (1822), figs 5-7.
Type horizon.
Eocene.
Type locality.
"Des environs
d'Epernay
. [...] De
l'ile
de Wight" [surroundings of
Epernay
(France); Isle of Wight (United Kingdom)].
Remarks.
Introduced within the var.
γ
, to which
Ferussac
attributed the term "
antiquua
", which was probably not intended as species-group name (see introduction for a detailed discussion of the names introduced by
Ferussac
1823
). Note that for figs 6 and 7 of pl. 7 in
Ferussac
(1823)
, which is the same as pl. 1 of the
"Melanopsides
fossiles" in
Ferussac
(1819-1851)
,
Pallary (1916)
introduced two new names, i.e.,
Melanopsis depressa
and
Melanopsis sparnacensis
.