Melania semiplicata Lamarck 1804 (snail)

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 J. B. Lamarck 1804

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Parnes, Oise (Defrance collection), which is in a Lutetian carbonate sandstone in France

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Parnes, Oise (Defrance collection)

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