Melanopsis aquensis Grateloup, 1838

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 40

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

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scientific name

Melanopsis aquensis Grateloup, 1838
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Original source.

Grateloup 1838: 139, pl. 4, figs 48-49.

Type horizon.

Burdigalian, early Miocene.

Type locality.

"Dax; Mandillot, à Saint-Paul", France.

Remarks.

Wenz (1929) synonymized the name with " Melanopsis major Férussac, 1823", which is not an available name.