Melanopsis capulus Handmann, 1882
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F67BEA9-4E9F-B0AA-8B66-80F5C5707D97 |
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Melanopsis capulus Handmann, 1882 |
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† Melanopsis capulus Handmann, 1882 View in CoL
Original source.
Handmann 1882: 554.
Type horizon.
Pannonian, zone D, late Miocene.
Type locality.
"Kottingbrunn [...] Ziegelei a", Austria.
Remarks.
The species epithet is a noun in apposition and needs not to agree in gender with the generic name (Art. 31.2.1). Wenz (1929: 2718) considered this taxon as a junior synonym of Melanopsis fossilis (Gmelin, 1791).
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