Melanopsis parreyssi f. scalaris Westerlund, 1886

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 244

Melanopsis parreyssi f. scalaris Westerlund, 1886 [invalid]

Original source.

Westerlund 1886: 123.

Type locality.

“Siebenbürgen b. Deva" [Deva], Romania.

Remarks.

Not available from Brot (1879: 431), who listed the name (" Melanopsis scalaris Parreyss in sched.") as synonym of Melanopsis Parreyssii var. β, which he introduced there with a short Latin description. Further below on p. 431, Brot even associated scalaris with an illustration of a specimen from Deva in Romania (pl. 46, fig. 15). However, the name was explicitly referred to as synonym of the (unnamed) variety β, which is not a valid name, and thus the requirements of Art. 11.6 (and therefore Art. 12.1) are not met. Westerlund (1886) was the first to describe it and attributed the authority to Parreyss. It is a junior homonym of Melanopsis scalaris Gassies, 1856. Neubauer et al. (2014: 125) considered it as a junior synonym of Microcolpia parreyssii .