Melanopsis matheroni var. rugosocarinata Fontannes, 1880

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 239-240

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/EFCB22BB-9CBB-52AC-BCF1-F81753B1CBE6

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scientific name

Melanopsis matheroni var. rugosocarinata Fontannes, 1880
status

 

Melanopsis matheroni var. rugosocarinata Fontannes, 1880 View in CoL

Original source.

Fontannes 1879-1882: 176.

Type horizon.

Miocene or Pliocene.

Type locality.

Rhône Basin? (no exact locality given), France.

Remarks.

Originally written as " rugoso- carinata ". Based on material from the Rhône Basin, not Italy as claimed by Wenz (1929); probably the taxon was mixed up by Italian authors cited by Wenz (1929).