Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:429-436

Belongs to Melania according to G. P. Deshayes 1825

See also Lamarck 1804

Sister taxa: Thiara (Balanocochlis), Thiara (Plotia), Thiara (Sermyla), Thiara (Setaeara), Thiara scabra, Thiara smartsvillensis, Thiara tjemoroensis, Thiara wheatlandensis, Melania texata, Melania abbreviata, Melania polita, Melania buccinalis, Melania fettkei, Melania concentrica, Melania acutestriata, Melania plicatula, Melania clavula, Melania marginata, Melania plicata, Melania schlotheimii, Melania bullia, Melania plieningeri, Melania tenuiplica, Melania packardi, Melania hordacea, Melania dunkeri, Melania herklotsi, Melania formosa, Melania vaderensis, Melania hunteri, Melania multistriata, Melania laevigata, Melania strigillata, Melania dubia, Melania tenuis, Melania partschii, Melania triticea, Melania fragilis, Melania longissima, Melania semiplicata, Melania decussata, Melania alberti, Melania inquinata, Melania nitida, Melania taylori, Melania claibornensis, Melania semistriata, Melania blainvillii, Melania miikensis, Melania obovata, Melania hoernesi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grignon (Defrance collection), which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal sandstone/sandstone in France

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Grignon (Defrance collection)

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