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

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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