MolluscaBase taxon details
Pseudomelania aspasia (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) †
1757511 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1757511)
accepted
Species
Chemnitzia aspasia A. d'Orbigny, 1850 † · unaccepted > superseded combination
Chemnitzia niortensis A. d'Orbigny, 1851 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pseudomelania (Pseudomelania) aspasia (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) † · alternative representation
Pseudomelania (Pseudomelania) niortensis (A. d'Orbigny, 1851) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pseudomelania niortensis (A. d'Orbigny, 1851) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Chemnitzia aspasia A. d'Orbigny, 1850 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1850). <i>Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques & rayonnés, faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques. Vol. 1</i>. LX + 394 pp. Paris: Masson ["1849"; published January 1850]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31705373
page(s): 298 [details]
page(s): 298 [details]
Type locality contained in France
type locality contained in France [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pseudomelania aspasia (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1757511 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Chemnitzia niortensis A. d'Orbigny, 1851 †) Orbigny, A. d'. (1851-1860). Paléontologie française, terrains jurassiques. Tome II, Gastéropodes. Victor Masson, Paris, 623 pp. [1851: 1-112, 1852: 113-232, 1853: 233-384, 1854: 385-424, 1855: 425-480, 1856: 481-520, 1857: 521-536, 1860: 537-623]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20361909
page(s): 48, pl. 242 figs 1-2 [details]
original description (of Chemnitzia aspasia A. d'Orbigny, 1850 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1850). <i>Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques & rayonnés, faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques. Vol. 1</i>. LX + 394 pp. Paris: Masson ["1849"; published January 1850]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31705373
page(s): 298 [details]
basis of record Cox, L. R. (1965). Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology. Supplement.</em> 1: 1-213., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41374085
page(s): 147, pl. 24 fig. 10 [details]
page(s): 48, pl. 242 figs 1-2 [details]
original description (of Chemnitzia aspasia A. d'Orbigny, 1850 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1850). <i>Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques & rayonnés, faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques. Vol. 1</i>. LX + 394 pp. Paris: Masson ["1849"; published January 1850]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31705373
page(s): 298 [details]
basis of record Cox, L. R. (1965). Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology. Supplement.</em> 1: 1-213., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41374085
page(s): 147, pl. 24 fig. 10 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
