Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Alternative combination: Bulimus decussatus

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:289-298

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

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

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Louvres (Defrance collection)

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