Microcolpia parreyssii sikorai (Brusina, 1903)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Melanopsis sikorai Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis franciscae Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis hazayi Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis staubi Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis themaki Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis tothi Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis vidovici Brusina, 1903; Melanopsis mucronifera Kormos, 1905
Conservation Status
Extinct (Neubauer et al., 2014; MolluscaBase eds., 2025)
Last record: Holocene (Neubauer et al., 2014)
Distribution & Habitat
Romania
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Brusina, S. (1903). Eine subtropische Oasis in Ungarn. Mitteilungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark 28: 101-121.
Other references:
Kormos, T. (1905). Über den Ursprung der Thermenfauna von Püspökfürdö. Földtani Közlöny 35: 421-450.
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Microcolpia parreyssii sikorai (Brusina, 1903) †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1420486 on 2026-08-04
Neubauer, T. A., Harzhauser, M., Georgopoulou, E. and Wrozyna, C. (2014). Population bottleneck triggering millennial-scale morphospace shifts in endemic thermal-spring melanopsids. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 414: 116-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.08.015
Paucă, M. (1937). Les mollusques pléistocènes de Băile Episcopeşti Bull. Soc. Roum. Géol. 3: 130-142.