WoRMS taxon details
Melanopsis A. Férussac, 1807
519395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:519395)
accepted
Genus
Melania costata Olivier, 1804 accepted as Melanopsis costata (Olivier, 1804) (type by subsequent designation)
Asmena Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted (unnecessary substitute name)
Battistiana Pallary, 1920 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Boistelia Cossmann, 1909 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ceneona Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted (unnecessary substitute name)
Couphiana Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Handmannia Cossmann, 1889 † · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (unnecessary replacement name)
Lyrcaea [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Lyrcea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melania (Melanopsis) A. Férussac, 1807 · unaccepted
Melanithes Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Belusiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Boistelia) Cossmann, 1909 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Buccinoidiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Calodiona) Stefanescu, 1896 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Canthidomus) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Cariosiana) Bourguignat, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Charpentieriana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Costatiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Couphaniana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Duabiana) Starobogatov & V. Anistratenko, 1993 † · alternative representation
Melanopsis (Dufouriana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Eumorphiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Graellsiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Homalia) Handmann, 1887 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Hyphantria) Handmann, 1887 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Letourneuxiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym; invalid: junior...)
junior synonym; invalid: junior homonym of Letourneuxiana Bourguignat, 1880 [Etheriidae] and Letourneuxiana Castro, 1883 [Unionidae]
Melanopsis (Lorcaniana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Lortetiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Lyrcaea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · unaccepted (junior synonym; misspelling (pro...)
junior synonym; misspelling (pro Lyrcea)
Melanopsis (Lyrcea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Maresiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Martinia) Handmann, 1887 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Melanopsis) A. Férussac, 1807 · alternative representation
Melanopsis (Melanoptychia) Neumayr, 1880 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Melanosteira) Andreae, 1893 † · alternative representation
Melanopsis (Mingreliciana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Myosotidiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Nodosiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Olivieriana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Pannonia) Pallary, 1916 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Parreyssiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · alternative representation
Melanopsis (Pauluccia) Brusina, 1902 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanopsis (Pechaudiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Praemorsiana) Bourguignat, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Saulcyana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Scalariana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Seignettiana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Sesteriana) Bourguignat, 1884 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Melanopsis (Sistaniana) Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1984 · alternative representation
Melanopsis (Smendovia) Tournouër, 1882 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Melanopsis (Spiridionia) Cossmann, 1909 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanoptychia Neumayr, 1880 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melanosteira Andreae, 1893 † · unaccepted > superseded combination (Melanosteira is considered a...)
Melanosteira is considered a subgenus of Melanopsis; not available from Oppenheim (1891), who introduced the vernacular "Melanosteiren"
Melanostira Cossmann, 1909 † · unaccepted > unjustified emendation (unjustified emendation of...)
unjustified emendation of Melanosteira
Smendovia Tournouër, 1882 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Subgenus Melanopsis (Canthidomus) Swainson, 1840 accepted as Melanopsis A. Férussac, 1807 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Melanopsis (Lyrcaea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 accepted as Melanopsis A. Férussac, 1807 (junior synonym; misspelling (pro Lyrcea))
- Subgenus Melanopsis (Melatoma) Swainson, 1840 accepted as Melatoma Swainson, 1840 accepted as Clionella J. E. Gray, 1847 (original rank)
- Species Melanopsis (Melatoma) costata Swainson, 1840 accepted as Clionella costata (Swainson, 1840) (basionym)
- Subgenus Melanopsis (Zemelanopsis) Finlay, 1926 accepted as Zemelanopsis H. J. Finlay, 1926 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Melanopsis (Zemelanopsis) trifasciata J. E. Gray, 1843 accepted as Zemelanopsis trifasciata (J. E. Gray, 1843) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Melanopsis frustulum Morelet, 1857 accepted as Caledomelanella frustulum (Morelet, 1857) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Melanopsis princeps I. Lea, 1834 accepted as Faunus ater (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Melanopsis strangei Reeve, 1860 accepted as Zemelanopsis trifasciata (J. E. Gray, 1843) (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Melanopsis trifasciata J. E. Gray, 1843 accepted as Zemelanopsis trifasciata (J. E. Gray, 1843) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Melanopsis zelandica A. Gould, 1847 accepted as Zemelanopsis trifasciata (J. E. Gray, 1843) (junior subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Melanopsis (Melanopsis) A. Férussac, 1807 represented as Melanopsis A. Férussac, 1807
recent + fossil
feminine
Férussac, J. B. L. d'Audebard de & Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1807). <i>Essai d'une méthode conchyliologique appliquée aux Mollusques fluviatiles et terrestres d'après la considération de l'animal et de son test. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une synonymie des espèces les plus remarquables, d'une table de concordance systématique de celles qui ont été décrites par Géoffroy, Poiret et Draparnaud, avec Müller et Linné, et terminée par un catalogue d'espèces observées en divers lieux de la France.</i> Paris: Delance. xvi + 142 pp. [between 23 September and 31 December]. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN614791812&DMDID=&LOGID=LOG_0002&PHYSID=PHYS_0006
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Nomenclature
original description
Férussac, J. B. L. d'Audebard de & Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1807). <i>Essai d'une méthode conchyliologique appliquée aux Mollusques fluviatiles et terrestres d'après la considération de l'animal et de son test. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une synonymie des espèces les plus remarquables, d'une table de concordance systématique de celles qui ont été décrites par Géoffroy, Poiret et Draparnaud, avec Müller et Linné, et terminée par un catalogue d'espèces observées en divers lieux de la France.</i> Paris: Delance. xvi + 142 pp. [between 23 September and 31 December]. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN614791812&DMDID=&LOGID=LOG_0002&PHYSID=PHYS_0006
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Melanoptychia Neumayr, 1880 †) Neumayr, M. (1880). Tertiäre Binnenmollusken aus Bosnien und der Hercegovina. <em>Jahrbuch der kaiserlichen und königlichen geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 30 (2), 463-486., available online at http://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=JB0302_463_A.pdf
page(s): 480 [details]
original description (of Melanosteira Andreae, 1893 †) Andreae, A. (1893). [Book review of] P. Oppenheim: Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Neogen in Griechenland. Mit einer geologischen Einleitung von A. Philippson. Mit 3 Taf. (Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. Ges. Bd. XLIII. 421. 1891.). <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie.</em> 2: 170-172.
page(s): 172 [details]
original description (of Melanostira Cossmann, 1909 †) Cossmann, M. (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Huitième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 248 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852591
page(s): 179-180 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Mingreliciana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Parreyssiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Duabiana) Starobogatov & V. Anistratenko, 1993 †) Anistratenko, V. V. (1993). Mollyuski semeystv Melanopsidae i Bithyniidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) iz kimmeriyskikh otlozheniy Abkhazii [Mollusks of the families Melanopsidae and Bithyniidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) from the Kimmerian deposits of Abkhazia]. <em>Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody, Otdel biologicheskiy.</em> 98(5): 68-79.
page(s): 69 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Melanopsis (Lyrcaea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): 310 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Canthidomus) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 202, 342 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Homalia) Handmann, 1887 †) Handmann, R. (1887). Die fossile Conchylienfauna von Leobersdorf im Tertiärbecken von Wien. Aschendorff, Münster, 47 pp., available online at http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/2023144
page(s): 12 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Martinia) Handmann, 1887 †) Handmann, R. (1887). Die fossile Conchylienfauna von Leobersdorf im Tertiärbecken von Wien. Aschendorff, Münster, 47 pp., available online at http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/2023144
page(s): 19 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Lyrcea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 †) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): Vol. 1: 310. [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Sistaniana) Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1984) Izzatullaev, Z. I.; Starobogatov, Ya. I. (1984). Pod <i>Melanopsis</i> (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) i ego predstaviteli, obitayushchiye v vodoyemakh SSSR [The genus <i>Melanopsis</i> (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) and its representatives in water bodies of the USSR]. <em>Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal.</em> 63 (10): 1471-1483. [in Russian].
page(s): 1476 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Melanopsis (Pauluccia) Brusina, 1902 †) Brusina, S. (1902). Iconographia Molluscorum Fossilium in tellure tertiaria Hungariae, Croatiae, Slavoniae, Dalmatiae, Bosniae, Herzegovinae, Serbiae and Bulgariae inventorum. Officina Soc. Typographicae, Agram.
page(s): viii [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Pannonia) Pallary, 1916 †) Pallary, P. (1916). Observations relatives à la nomenclature des Melanopsis fossiles. <em>Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord.</em> 7 (3), 70-87., available online at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=1840
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Buccinoidiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 73 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Belusiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Boistelia) Cossmann, 1909 †) Cossmann, M. (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Huitième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 248 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852591
page(s): 183-184 [details]
original description (of Asmena Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526
page(s): xi [details]
original description (of Ceneona Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526
page(s): 169 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Calodiona) Stefanescu, 1896 †) Stefanescu, S. (1896). Études sur les Terrains tertiaires de Roumanie. Contribution a l'étude des faunes sarmatique, pontique et levantine. <em>Mémoirs de la Société Géologique de France, Mémoir 15. Paléontologique.</em> 6 (2-3), 1-147.
page(s): 126, 131 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Cariosiana) Bourguignat, 1877) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1877). Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suivies d'une classification des familles et des genres de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse.</em> 3 [1875-1876] (1): 49-101. [≤ May] Toulouse., available online at http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/digireference?id=43
page(s): 88 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Charpentieriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Costatiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Battistiana Pallary, 1920 †) Pallary, P. (1920). Deuxième note sur la nomenclature des Melanopsis fossiles. <em>Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord.</em> 11 (7), 104-119., available online at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=1844
page(s): 108 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Dufouriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Eumorphiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Graellsiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Handmannia Cossmann, 1889 †) Cossmann, M. (1889). Gastéropodes. In: Douvillé, H. (Ed.) Revue de paléontologie pour l'année 1888. <em>Annuaire Géologique Universel.</em> 5: 1079–1109., available online at https://archive.org/stream/annuairegologiq09unkngoog#page/n1095/mode/2up
page(s): 1101 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Hyphantria) Handmann, 1887 †) Handmann, R. (1887). Die fossile Conchylienfauna von Leobersdorf im Tertiärbecken von Wien. Aschendorff, Münster, 47 pp., available online at http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/2023144
page(s): 37-38 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Praemorsiana) Bourguignat, 1877) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1877). Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suivies d'une classification des familles et des genres de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse.</em> 3 [1875-1876] (1): 49-101. [≤ May] Toulouse., available online at http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/digireference?id=43
page(s): 88 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Saulcyana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Scalariana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Seignettiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Sesteriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Smendovia Tournouër, 1882 †) Tournouër, R. (1882). Description d'un nouveau genre de Melanopsidinae fossiles des terrains tertiaires supérieurs de l'Algérie. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 30: 59., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16222886
page(s): 59 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Spiridionia) Cossmann, 1909 †) Cossmann, M. (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Huitième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 248 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852591
page(s): 178-179 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Letourneuxiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Lortetiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Lorcaniana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Maresiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 77 [details]
original description (of Melanithes Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 202, 341 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Myosotidiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Nodosiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Olivieriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Pechaudiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 77 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Couphaniana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
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original description (of Melanoptychia Neumayr, 1880 †) Neumayr, M. (1880). Tertiäre Binnenmollusken aus Bosnien und der Hercegovina. <em>Jahrbuch der kaiserlichen und königlichen geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 30 (2), 463-486., available online at http://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=JB0302_463_A.pdf
page(s): 480 [details]
original description (of Melanosteira Andreae, 1893 †) Andreae, A. (1893). [Book review of] P. Oppenheim: Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Neogen in Griechenland. Mit einer geologischen Einleitung von A. Philippson. Mit 3 Taf. (Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. Ges. Bd. XLIII. 421. 1891.). <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie.</em> 2: 170-172.
page(s): 172 [details]
original description (of Melanostira Cossmann, 1909 †) Cossmann, M. (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Huitième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 248 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852591
page(s): 179-180 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Mingreliciana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Parreyssiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Duabiana) Starobogatov & V. Anistratenko, 1993 †) Anistratenko, V. V. (1993). Mollyuski semeystv Melanopsidae i Bithyniidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) iz kimmeriyskikh otlozheniy Abkhazii [Mollusks of the families Melanopsidae and Bithyniidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) from the Kimmerian deposits of Abkhazia]. <em>Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody, Otdel biologicheskiy.</em> 98(5): 68-79.
page(s): 69 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Melanopsis (Lyrcaea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): 310 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Canthidomus) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 202, 342 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Homalia) Handmann, 1887 †) Handmann, R. (1887). Die fossile Conchylienfauna von Leobersdorf im Tertiärbecken von Wien. Aschendorff, Münster, 47 pp., available online at http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/2023144
page(s): 12 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Martinia) Handmann, 1887 †) Handmann, R. (1887). Die fossile Conchylienfauna von Leobersdorf im Tertiärbecken von Wien. Aschendorff, Münster, 47 pp., available online at http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/2023144
page(s): 19 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Lyrcea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 †) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): Vol. 1: 310. [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Sistaniana) Izzatullaev & Starobogatov, 1984) Izzatullaev, Z. I.; Starobogatov, Ya. I. (1984). Pod <i>Melanopsis</i> (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) i ego predstaviteli, obitayushchiye v vodoyemakh SSSR [The genus <i>Melanopsis</i> (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) and its representatives in water bodies of the USSR]. <em>Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal.</em> 63 (10): 1471-1483. [in Russian].
page(s): 1476 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Melanopsis (Pauluccia) Brusina, 1902 †) Brusina, S. (1902). Iconographia Molluscorum Fossilium in tellure tertiaria Hungariae, Croatiae, Slavoniae, Dalmatiae, Bosniae, Herzegovinae, Serbiae and Bulgariae inventorum. Officina Soc. Typographicae, Agram.
page(s): viii [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Pannonia) Pallary, 1916 †) Pallary, P. (1916). Observations relatives à la nomenclature des Melanopsis fossiles. <em>Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord.</em> 7 (3), 70-87., available online at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=1840
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Buccinoidiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 73 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Belusiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Boistelia) Cossmann, 1909 †) Cossmann, M. (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Huitième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 248 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852591
page(s): 183-184 [details]
original description (of Asmena Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526
page(s): xi [details]
original description (of Ceneona Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526
page(s): 169 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Calodiona) Stefanescu, 1896 †) Stefanescu, S. (1896). Études sur les Terrains tertiaires de Roumanie. Contribution a l'étude des faunes sarmatique, pontique et levantine. <em>Mémoirs de la Société Géologique de France, Mémoir 15. Paléontologique.</em> 6 (2-3), 1-147.
page(s): 126, 131 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Cariosiana) Bourguignat, 1877) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1877). Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suivies d'une classification des familles et des genres de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse.</em> 3 [1875-1876] (1): 49-101. [≤ May] Toulouse., available online at http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/digireference?id=43
page(s): 88 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Charpentieriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Costatiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Battistiana Pallary, 1920 †) Pallary, P. (1920). Deuxième note sur la nomenclature des Melanopsis fossiles. <em>Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord.</em> 11 (7), 104-119., available online at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=1844
page(s): 108 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Dufouriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Eumorphiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Graellsiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Handmannia Cossmann, 1889 †) Cossmann, M. (1889). Gastéropodes. In: Douvillé, H. (Ed.) Revue de paléontologie pour l'année 1888. <em>Annuaire Géologique Universel.</em> 5: 1079–1109., available online at https://archive.org/stream/annuairegologiq09unkngoog#page/n1095/mode/2up
page(s): 1101 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Hyphantria) Handmann, 1887 †) Handmann, R. (1887). Die fossile Conchylienfauna von Leobersdorf im Tertiärbecken von Wien. Aschendorff, Münster, 47 pp., available online at http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/2023144
page(s): 37-38 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Praemorsiana) Bourguignat, 1877) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1877). Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suivies d'une classification des familles et des genres de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse.</em> 3 [1875-1876] (1): 49-101. [≤ May] Toulouse., available online at http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/digireference?id=43
page(s): 88 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Saulcyana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Scalariana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Seignettiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Sesteriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Smendovia Tournouër, 1882 †) Tournouër, R. (1882). Description d'un nouveau genre de Melanopsidinae fossiles des terrains tertiaires supérieurs de l'Algérie. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 30: 59., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16222886
page(s): 59 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Spiridionia) Cossmann, 1909 †) Cossmann, M. (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Huitième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 248 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852591
page(s): 178-179 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Letourneuxiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Lortetiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Lorcaniana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Maresiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 77 [details]
original description (of Melanithes Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 202, 341 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Myosotidiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Nodosiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Olivieriana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Pechaudiana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 77 [details]
original description (of Melanopsis (Couphaniana) Bourguignat, 1884) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1884). Histoire des Mélaniens du système européen. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2 (1): 1-168. [± August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12168568
page(s): 74 [details]
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Neumayr, M. (1880). Tertiäre Binnenmollusken aus Bosnien und der Hercegovina. <em>Jahrbuch der kaiserlichen und königlichen geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 30 (2), 463-486., available online at http://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=JB0302_463_A.pdf
page(s): 480 [details]
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Authority The authorship was attributed to A. Férussac in the preface of J. Férussac & A. Férussac (1807: xii). [details]
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