Melanopsis pyramidalis Pallary, 1920

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 230

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/4E13F125-90A1-D896-C4A8-97E961C42BAC

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scientific name

Melanopsis pyramidalis Pallary, 1920
status

 

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Original source.

Pallary 1920b: 117.

Type horizon.

Early Rupelian, Oligocene.

Type locality.

"Grossalmerode, Oberzwehren, Mardorf bei Wabern, Frielendorf, Kirchhain, Dannerod, Ofleiden, Mardorf an der Ohm" ( Ludwig 1865: 71), Germany.

Remarks.

Introduced for Melanopsis praerosa [= Melanopsis praemorsa ] sensu Ludwig, 1865, non Linnaeus, 1758. It was regarded a junior synonym by Wenz (1929: 2740) because Sandberger (1873: 315) had already introduced Melanopsis hassiaca as replacement name for misidentified Melanopsis praemorsa from that region and time period. Since Sandberger did not explicitly refer to Ludwig’s material, pyramidalis and hassiaca are not objective synonyms.