MolluscaBase name details
original description
Hislop, S. (1860). On the Tertiary Deposits, associated with Trap-rock, in the East Indies. <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 16: 154-182., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35427895 page(s): 174, pl. 5, fig. 23b, c [details]
additional source
Hartman, J. H.; Erickson, D. N.; Bakken, A. (2008). Stephen Hislop and his 1860 Cretaceous continental molluscan new species descriptions in Latin from the Deccan Plateau, India. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 51(6): 1225-1252., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00807.x [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Status Invalid: junior homonym of Physa elongata Say, 1821; Platyphysa nagensis Pacaud, 2022 is a replacement name. [details]
Type locality Hislop listed several localities collectively for the three varieties he assigned to this species: "All these forms may be procured, within the province of Nagpur, wherever the deposit is fossiliferous, especially at Tákli, Telankhedi, Butárá [= Bhutera], and Phizdura [= Pijdūra]. Excellent specimens have been obtained also from Chichundra [= Chhindwāra] [...]; [...] from the hills on the north of Ellichpur [= Achalpur]." These localities are in eastern Maharashtra and southern Madhya Pradesh provinces of India. [details]
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