Melanopsis callosa Voltz, 1852

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 66

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7557FA91-E21E-27AA-7185-68B26FA72AE8

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scientific name

Melanopsis callosa Voltz, 1852
status

 

Melanopsis callosa Voltz, 1852 View in CoL

Original source.

Voltz 1852: viii, pl. 3, fig. 10.

Type horizon.

Mammal zone MN 1, early Miocene.

Type locality.

“Weisenau”, Germany.

Remarks.

The name appeared first as nomen nudum in Genth (1848: 198-199), Sandberger (1850: 18; 1851: 676; 1852: 684) and Braun in Walchner (1851: 1126). Wenz (1929: 2764) considered this taxon as a junior synonym of Melanopsis fritzei Thomä, 1845.