Molluscabase - Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 †

MolluscaBase name details

Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 †

AphiaID

1262763 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1262763)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination (invalid; not Philippi, 1836)

Accepted Name

Hadraxon aciculus (Matheron, 1843) †

Rank

Species

Parent

Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798

Orig. name

Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 †

Environment

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

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

Matheron, P. (1843). Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des corps organisés fossiles du départment des Bouches-du-Rhône et lieux circonvoisins. <em>Répertoire des travaux de la Société de statistique de Marseille.</em> 6: 81-341., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5719359d/f81.image
page(s): 291, pl. 36, fig. 5 [details]

Type data

Note Peynier and Trets, Bouches-du-Rhône, France;...

From editor or global species database

Type locality Peynier and Trets, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; late Santonian to early Campanian, late Cretaceous [details]

Descriptive notes

Homonymy Invalid: junior homonym of Melania acicula Philippi, 1836

Homonymy Invalid: junior homonym of Melania acicula Philippi, 1836 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262763 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-07-02 12:43:57Z

created

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2018-07-09 20:58:41Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2022-11-15 07:07:38Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2023-03-02 06:25:55Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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original description Matheron, P. (1843). Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des corps organisés fossiles du départment des Bouches-du-Rhône et lieux circonvoisins. <em>Répertoire des travaux de la Société de statistique de Marseille.</em> 6: 81-341., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5719359d/f81.image
page(s): 291, pl. 36, fig. 5 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Grammatical gender Fabre-Taxy (1951) treated Hadraxon as feminine, but Oppenheim (1892) had clearly indicated it as masculine. [details]

Homonymy Invalid: junior homonym of Melania acicula Philippi, 1836 [details]

Type locality Peynier and Trets, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; late Santonian to early Campanian, late Cretaceous [details]