Melania fossariformis Tournouer , 1879

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 122

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:65EFA276-7345-4AC6-9B78-DBE7E98D6103

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B55F9CBF-6E74-560E-A2D8-E3E358CB55BB

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scientific name

Melania fossariformis Tournouer , 1879
status

 

Melania fossariformis Tournouer, 1879

Original source.

Tournouër 1879: 261.

Type horizon.

Cernikian, Pliocene.

Type locality.

"Nisipulu, Rumaniae" [Nisip], Romania.

Remarks.

Considered to belong in the genus Amphimelania by Cossmann (1909: 126) and Wenz (1929: 2873).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sorbeoconcha

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Melania