Melanopsis crenocarinata var. leucostoma Moricand, 1841

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 151-152

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:65EFA276-7345-4AC6-9B78-DBE7E98D6103

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AFCCC85C-8FDA-5F17-A441-A308AA0FD203

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scientific name

Melanopsis crenocarinata var. leucostoma Moricand, 1841
status

 

Melanopsis crenocarinata var. leucostoma Moricand, 1841

Original source.

Moricand 1841: 62.

Type locality.

"Rio de Pedra Branca, procince de Bahia" [Pedra Branca river, province Bahia], Brazil.

Remarks.

Although not explicitly stated, this variety was apparently considered to belong to the new genus Verena by Adams and Adams (1854) ( Thiaridae ), of which Melanopsis crenocarinata is the type species (see Nuttall 1990: 253).