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Melanopsis magna Pallary, 1916 †
1422336 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1422336)
unaccepted > junior objective synonym
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fossil only
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): 78 [details]
page(s): 78 [details]
Type locality contained in France
type locality contained in France [details]
Status Pallary (1916) erroneously treated "magna" as available name attributed to Férussac (1823), who solely used the word as...
Status Pallary (1916) erroneously treated "magna" as available name attributed to Férussac (1823), who solely used the word as descriptive term (Latin “big”), which he applied to many of his varieties. The name became nevertheless available from Pallary (1916) who associated the name with an illustration in Férussac (1823: pl. 7, fig. 16). The illustrated specimen is, however, the holotype (by monotypy) of Melanopsis dufourii Férussac, 1822 (Férussac used the same plates in both of his works and thus Pallary actually referred to the specimen illustrated as M. dufourii in the “Histoire naturelle”; see also introduction and Table 1 for details of Férussac’s publications). Therefore, Melanopsis magna Pallary, 1916 is a junior objective synonym of M. dufourii. [details]
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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): 78 [details]
status source Neubauer, T.A. (2016). A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 602: 1-358., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136
page(s): 177 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 78 [details]
status source Neubauer, T.A. (2016). A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 602: 1-358., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136
page(s): 177 [details] Available for editors
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Status Pallary (1916) erroneously treated "magna" as available name attributed to Férussac (1823), who solely used the word as descriptive term (Latin “big”), which he applied to many of his varieties. The name became nevertheless available from Pallary (1916) who associated the name with an illustration in Férussac (1823: pl. 7, fig. 16). The illustrated specimen is, however, the holotype (by monotypy) of Melanopsis dufourii Férussac, 1822 (Férussac used the same plates in both of his works and thus Pallary actually referred to the specimen illustrated as M. dufourii in the “Histoire naturelle”; see also introduction and Table 1 for details of Férussac’s publications). Therefore, Melanopsis magna Pallary, 1916 is a junior objective synonym of M. dufourii. [details]
