Marine Species Traits - Melanopsis (Canthidomus) turritus Handmann, 1887 †

Traits name details

Melanopsis (Canthidomus) turritus Handmann, 1887 †

AphiaID

1049525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1049525)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior homonym of M. turrita Rossmässer, 1854; Pallary (1916) introduced M. hispidula as replacement name; currently ranked as subspecies of M. pygmaea)

Accepted name

Melanopsis pygmaea hispidula Pallary, 1916 †

Rank

Species

Parent

Melanopsis (Canthidomus) Swainson, 1840 accepted as Melanopsis A. Férussac, 1807

Original name

Melanopsis (Canthidomus) turritus Handmann, 1887 †

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

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): 32, pl. 7, fig. 13 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melanopsis (Canthidomus) turritus Handmann, 1887 †. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2021) Marine Species Traits at: http://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1049525 on 2025-05-11

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Melanopsis (Canthidomus) turritus Handmann, 1887 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1049525 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-12-19 10:46:06Z

created

Neubauer, Thomas A.

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Sources (3)
Attributes (1)

original description 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): 32, pl. 7, fig. 13 [details]

additional source 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): 83-84 [details]

status source Neubauer, T. A.; Harzhauser, M.; Georgopoulou, E.; Mandic, O.; Kroh, A. (2014). Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3785(3): 453-468., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.7
page(s): 463 [details] Available for editors

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