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Hadraxon aciculus (Matheron, 1843) †
1261182 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1261182)
accepted > unreplaced junior homonym (junior primary homonym of M. acicula Philippi, 1836; no replacement name or synonym available)
Species
Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 † · unaccepted > superseded combination (invalid; not Philippi, 1836)
fossil only
(of Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 †) 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]
page(s): 291, pl. 36, fig. 5 [details]
Type locality contained in France
type locality contained in France [from synonym] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hadraxon aciculus (Matheron, 1843) †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1261182 on 2025-09-11
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(of Melania acicula Matheron, 1843 †) 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]
page(s): 291, pl. 36, fig. 5 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Grammatical gender Fabre-Taxy (1951) treated Hadraxon as feminine, but Oppenheim (1892) had clearly indicated it as masculine. [details]
