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 triticea, Melania dubia, Melania texata, Melania nitida, Melania taylori, Melania dunkeri, Melania hordacea, Melania strigillata, Melania claibornensis, Melania alberti, Melania plieningeri, Melania fragilis, Melania herklotsi, Melania fettkei, Melania plicata, Melania polita, Melania tenuiplica, Melania decussata, Melania longissima, Melania hunteri, Melania hoernesi, Melania concentrica, Melania semistriata, Melania abbreviata, Melania acutestriata, Melania inquinata, Melania canicularis, Melania formosa, Melania clavula, Melania multistriata, Melania obovata, Melania bullia, Melania miikensis, Melania plicatula, Melania laevigata, Melania vaderensis, Melania blainvillii, Melania tenuis, Melania buccinalis, Melania schlotheimii, Melania partschii, Melania packardi, Melania marginata

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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