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 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 canicularis, Melania tenuis, Melania partschii, Melania triticea, Melania fragilis, Melania longissima, Melania semiplicata, 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 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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