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Melanopsis affinis Pallary, 1916 †

822512  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:822512)

 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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): 82 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Status The name often appears as "Melanopsis affinis Férussac" in the literature (e.g., Wenz 1929: 2653; Esu and Girotti 1975: 251)....  
Status The name often appears as "Melanopsis affinis Férussac" in the literature (e.g., Wenz 1929: 2653; Esu and Girotti 1975: 251). It was first mentioned in Férussac (1814) as nomen nudum for a specimen from the Euphrates River. Later, Férussac (1823) listed the name in synonymy of M. nodosa Férussac, 1822. Unlike Pallary (1916) claimed and followed by Wenz (1929), affinis is not to be preferred over nodosa, because at that time affinis was not an available name – it has never been described, indicated or illustrated (as, for example, wrongly presumed by Esu and Girotti 1975) and so does not fulfill the requirements of availability (Art. 11 and 12; see also Art. 11.6). Pallary (1916) was the first to affiliate the name with an illustration, namely the one of M. nodosa provided by Férussac, 1823 (pl. 7, fig. 13), and made the name thereby available. The illustrated specimen is, however, the holotype (by monotypy) of M. nodosa Férussac, 1822 (Férussac used the same plates in both of his works and thus Pallary actually referred to the specimen illustrated as M. nodosa in the "Histoire naturelle"). Consequently, Melanopsis affinis Pallary, 1916 is a junior objective synonym of M. nodosa. Moreover, the name is a junior homonym of M. affinis Handmann, 1882. [details]
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original description 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): 82 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Wenz, W. (1923-1930). Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria. W. Junk, Berlin. Vol. I: 1-352 pp. (1923), Vol. II: 353-736 pp. (1923), Vol. III: 737-1068 pp. (1923), Vol. IV: 1069-1420 pp. (1923), Vol. V: 1421-1734 pp. (1923), Vol. VI: 1735-1862 pp. (1923), Vol. VII: 1863-2230 pp. (1926), Vol. VIII: 2231-2502 pp. (1928), Vol. IX: 2503-2886 pp. (1929), Vol. X: 2887-3014 pp. (1929), Vol. XI: 3015-3387 pp. (1930)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61839#/summary
page(s): 2653 [details]   

additional source Esu, D., Girotti, O. (1975). La malacofauna continentale del Plio-Pleistocene dell'Italia centrale. I. Paleontologia. Geologica Romana. 13, 203-294.
page(s): 251 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 32-33 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1814). <i>Mémoires géologiques sur les terreins formés sous l'eau douce par les débris fossiles des mollusques vivant sur la terre ou dans l'eau non salée</i>. Paris: Poulet. 76 pp. 1–76 pp.; Paris (Poulet)., available online at http://books.google.at/books?pg=PR5&lpg=PA17&id=NqpAAAAAcAAJ&hl=de&ots=x7ErJq1S5a#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 54 [details]   
From editor or global species database
Status The name often appears as "Melanopsis affinis Férussac" in the literature (e.g., Wenz 1929: 2653; Esu and Girotti 1975: 251). It was first mentioned in Férussac (1814) as nomen nudum for a specimen from the Euphrates River. Later, Férussac (1823) listed the name in synonymy of M. nodosa Férussac, 1822. Unlike Pallary (1916) claimed and followed by Wenz (1929), affinis is not to be preferred over nodosa, because at that time affinis was not an available name – it has never been described, indicated or illustrated (as, for example, wrongly presumed by Esu and Girotti 1975) and so does not fulfill the requirements of availability (Art. 11 and 12; see also Art. 11.6). Pallary (1916) was the first to affiliate the name with an illustration, namely the one of M. nodosa provided by Férussac, 1823 (pl. 7, fig. 13), and made the name thereby available. The illustrated specimen is, however, the holotype (by monotypy) of M. nodosa Férussac, 1822 (Férussac used the same plates in both of his works and thus Pallary actually referred to the specimen illustrated as M. nodosa in the "Histoire naturelle"). Consequently, Melanopsis affinis Pallary, 1916 is a junior objective synonym of M. nodosa. Moreover, the name is a junior homonym of M. affinis Handmann, 1882. [details]

Validity The name often appears as "M. affinis Férussac" in the literature (e.g., Wenz 1929: 2653; Esu and Girotti 1975: 251). It was first mentioned in Férussac (1814) as nomen nudum for a specimen from the Euphrates River. Later, Férussac (1823) listed the name in synonymy of M. nodosa Férussac, 1822. Unlike Pallary (1916) claimed and followed by Wenz (1929), affinis is not to be preferred over nodosa, because at that time affinis was not an available name – it has never been described, indicated or illustrated (as, for example, wrongly presumed by Esu and Girotti 1975) and so does not fulfill the requirements of availability (Art. 11 and 12; see also Art. 11.6). Pallary (1916) was the first to affiliate the name with an illustration, namely the one of M. nodosa provided by Férussac, 1823 (pl. 7, fig. 13), and made the name thereby available. The illustrated specimen is, however, the holotype (by monotypy) of M. nodosa Férussac, 1822 (Férussac used the same plates in both of his works and thus Pallary actually referred to the specimen illustrated as M. nodosa in the "Histoire naturelle"; see also introduction and Table 1 for details of Férussac’s publications). Consequently, Melanopsis affinis Pallary, 1916 is a junior objective synonym of M. nodosa. Moreover, the name is a junior homonym of M. affinis Handmann, 1882. [details]

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