FreshGEN taxon details
original description
Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1819-1832). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. <em>J.-B. Bailliere, Paris.</em> Tome deuxième, première partie. Livraison 1: [3 pp. = dedication], i-xvi (= Préface) (6-III-1819); livr. 2: 1-16 (5-VI-1819); livr. 3: 17-56 (10-VII-1819); livr. 4: 57-72 (18-IX-1819); livr. 5: 73-96 (4-XII-1819); livr. 7: 97-128 (17-VI-1820); livr. 9: xvi pp. (= Explication des planches du premier volume) (6-IV-1821); livr. 17: v pp. (= Explication des planches supplémentaires et de celles qui ne font pas partie du premier volume) (2-XI-1822); livr. 19/21: 96a-z, 96α-λ (27-IX-1823); livr. 22/27: iv pp. (= Explication des planches des livraisons XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI et XXVII) (4-VIII-1832). – Paris (J.-B. Baillière). Note: continued by G.-P. Deshayes (1839-1851). Explication des planches not included in BHL copy., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52469779 page(s): "Mélanopsides fossiles", pl. 1 (1822), fig. 16 [details]
additional source
Glöer, P. (2019). <i>The freshwater gastropods of the West-Palaearctis</i>. Volume 1. Fresh- and brakish waters except spring and subterranean snails. Identification key, anatomy, ecology, distribution. Published by the author. 399 pp. page(s): 78, fig. 74; note: Misapplication: applied to a Recent species from southern Spain and Algeria. [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): 107-108 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The name first appeared in 1822 on the captions for plate 1 of the "Mélanopsides fossiles" in Férussac’s "Histoire naturelle". While Férussac (1823) included also recent specimens under that name in his monograph on the Melanopsidae, the only specimen illustrated in 1822 in the "Histoire naturelle" was a fossil one from the Miocene of France. This fact remained widely unknown to biologists and paleontologists alike. Only few malacologists, such as Grateloup (1828, 1838, 1840), used the name correctly and attributed it to the French fossils. Consequently, none of the specimens referred to as M. dufourii in the biological literature actually corresponds to the real M. dufourii. Very likely, some of the other melanopsids from Dax (see, e.g., Grateloup 1838, d’Orbigny 1852, Pallary 1916) are unrecognized junior synonyms of this species.
The names "dufouri" as mentioned by numerous authors and databases and "dufourei" as given by Morelet (1853: 297) and Bourguignat (1884: 114) are incorrect subsequent spellings.
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Type locality "Des environs de Dax" [surroundings of Dax], France. [details]
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