Melanopsis geniculata Brusina, 1874

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 130

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/CD44CE8B-F934-543D-2C14-99720BC71654

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scientific name

Melanopsis geniculata Brusina, 1874
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Original source.

Brusina 1874: 40, pl. 1, figs 9-10.

Type horizon.

Langhian, middle Miocene.

Type locality.

“Miočić”, Croatia.

Types.

Milan et al. (1974: 91) indicated a holotype, but it is uncertain whether the specimen was the only one Brusina had at hand (holotype by monotypy, Art. 73.1.2). The specimen is stored in the Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, coll. no. 3207-853.