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

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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