Melania hellespontica Calvert & Neumayr, 1880

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 135

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/DB4685B9-890F-21B1-0433-B8128F23EAB9

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scientific name

Melania hellespontica Calvert & Neumayr, 1880
status

 

Melania hellespontica Calvert & Neumayr, 1880

Original source.

Calvert and Neumayr 1880: 374, pl. 2, fig. 14.

Type horizon.

Late Sarmatian, Khersonian, late Miocene.

Type locality.

“Renkiöi” [north of İntepe], Turkey.

Remarks.

Considered to belong in the genus Amphimelania by Wenz (1929: 2874).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sorbeoconcha

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Melania