FreshGEN taxon details
original description
(of Melanopsis decostata Penecke, 1884 †) Penecke, K.A. (1884). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna der slavonischen Paludinenschichten. II. <em>Congeria, Pisidium, Cardium</em> und die Gasteropoden. <em>Beiträge zur Paläontologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients.</em> 4, 15-44., available online at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/BPalOeU_004_0015-0044.pdf page(s): 22, pl. 10, fig. 7 [details]
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): 2698 [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Brusina (1902) listed the taxon "M. croatica decostata" in his account of Tertiary fossil mollusks of SE Europe. Although Brusina marked it as new (asterisk), he probably did not intend to introduce a new subspecies. More likely, he referred to the species of Penecke (1884), which he had ranked as subspecies of M. croatica already in an earlier work (Brusina 1897). Both Brusina's (1902) and Penecke's (1884) specimens look very similar and derive from the same region in NE Croatia. Therefore, Brusina's (1902) record should not be regarded as a separate taxon. [details]
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