Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1819-1832). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. <em>J.-B. Bailliere, Paris.</em> Tome deuxième, première partie. Livraison 1: [3 pp. = dedication], i-xvi (= Préface) (6-III-1819); livr. 2: 1-16 (5-VI-1819); livr. 3: 17-56 (10-VII-1819); livr. 4: 57-72 (18-IX-1819); livr. 5: 73-96 (4-XII-1819); livr. 7: 97-128 (17-VI-1820); livr. 9: xvi pp. (= Explication des planches du premier volume) (6-IV-1821); livr. 17: v pp. (= Explication des planches supplémentaires et de celles qui ne font pas partie du premier volume) (2-XI-1822); livr. 19/21: 96a-z, 96α-λ (27-IX-1823); livr. 22/27: iv pp. (= Explication des planches des livraisons XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI et XXVII) (4-VIII-1832). – Paris (J.-B. Baillière). Note: continued by G.-P. Deshayes (1839-1851). Explication des planches not included in BHL copy., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52469779 page(s): "Mélanopsides fossiles", pl. 1 (1822), fig. 13 [details]
Note "Entre Otricoli et le Vigne, route de Rome à...
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Type locality "Entre Otricoli et le Vigne, route de Rome à Foligno" [between Otricoli and Le Vigne, at the road from Rome to Foligno], Italy. [details]
Taxonomic remark The name first appeared in 1822 on the captions for plate 1 of the "Mélanopsides fossiles" in Férussac’s "Histoire...
Taxonomic remark The name first appeared in 1822 on the captions for plate 1 of the "Mélanopsides fossiles" in Férussac’s "Histoire naturelle". While Férussac (1823) included also recent specimens under that name in his monograph on the Melanopsidae, the only specimen illustrated in 1822 in the "Histoire naturelle" was a fossil one from the Villafranchian of Italy. This fact remained
widely unknown to biologists and paleontologists alike. The consequence, however, is that probably none of the specimens referred to as M. nodosa in the biological literature, which reports it from Anatolia and the Middle East, actually correspond to the real M. nodosa.
Fossil Italian specimens are often erroneously referred to as "Melanopsis affinis Férussac" or "M. antiqua Férussac" (Pallary 1916, Wenz 1929, Esu and Girotti 1975),
both of which are unavailable names. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melanopsis nodosa A. Férussac, 1822 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1035736 on 2024-03-29
original descriptionFérussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1819-1832). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. <em>J.-B. Bailliere, Paris.</em> Tome deuxième, première partie. Livraison 1: [3 pp. = dedication], i-xvi (= Préface) (6-III-1819); livr. 2: 1-16 (5-VI-1819); livr. 3: 17-56 (10-VII-1819); livr. 4: 57-72 (18-IX-1819); livr. 5: 73-96 (4-XII-1819); livr. 7: 97-128 (17-VI-1820); livr. 9: xvi pp. (= Explication des planches du premier volume) (6-IV-1821); livr. 17: v pp. (= Explication des planches supplémentaires et de celles qui ne font pas partie du premier volume) (2-XI-1822); livr. 19/21: 96a-z, 96α-λ (27-IX-1823); livr. 22/27: iv pp. (= Explication des planches des livraisons XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI et XXVII) (4-VIII-1832). – Paris (J.-B. Baillière). Note: continued by G.-P. Deshayes (1839-1851). Explication des planches not included in BHL copy., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52469779 page(s): "Mélanopsides fossiles", pl. 1 (1822), fig. 13 [details]
original description(ofMelanopsis oomorpha De Stefani, 1877 †)De Stefani, C. (1877). Molluschi continentali fino ad ora notati in ltalia nei terreni pliocenici, ed ordinamento di questi ultimi. <em>Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali Residente in Pisa.</em> 3(2): 274-325., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34891376 page(s): 309-310, pl. 18, fig. 8 [details]
additional sourcePrashad, B. (1921). Report on the freshwater gastropod molluscs of Lower Mesopotamia. Part III. - The families Neritidae, Hydrobiidae and Melaniidae. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 18(5) [Report on the aquatic fauna of Seistan with subsidiary studies. Part V]: 215-227. Calcutta [29 April]., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11134343 page(s): 225 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomic remark The name first appeared in 1822 on the captions for plate 1 of the "Mélanopsides fossiles" in Férussac’s "Histoire naturelle". While Férussac (1823) included also recent specimens under that name in his monograph on the Melanopsidae, the only specimen illustrated in 1822 in the "Histoire naturelle" was a fossil one from the Villafranchian of Italy. This fact remained
widely unknown to biologists and paleontologists alike. The consequence, however, is that probably none of the specimens referred to as M. nodosa in the biological literature, which reports it from Anatolia and the Middle East, actually correspond to the real M. nodosa.
Fossil Italian specimens are often erroneously referred to as "Melanopsis affinis Férussac" or "M. antiqua Férussac" (Pallary 1916, Wenz 1929, Esu and Girotti 1975),
both of which are unavailable names. [details] Type locality "Entre Otricoli et le Vigne, route de Rome à Foligno" [between Otricoli and Le Vigne, at the road from Rome to Foligno], Italy. [details]