| Pseudomelania | |
|---|---|
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| Pseudomelania elegantula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | †Pseudomelaniidae |
| Genus: | †Pseudomelania Pictet & Campiche, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudomelania gresslyi Pictet & Campiche, 1862 | |
Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of Caenogastropid sea snails that belongs to the family Pseudomelaniidae.
Taxonomy
Species
Many species have been described to belong to this genus. A list of species within the genus Pseudomelania is listed below:[1]
Subgenus Hudlestoniella
- Pseudomelania (Hudlestoniella) gubleri Delpey, 1941
Subgenus Oonia Cossmann, 1885
Synonym: Eligmoloxus
- Pseudomelania (Oonia) incrassata Kittl, 1899
- Pseudomelania (Oonia) pennina Parona, 1892
- Pseudomelania (Oonia subtortilis Münster, 1841
- Pseudomelania (Oonia) texta Kittl, 1899
- Pseudomelania (Oonia) grossouvrei Cossmann, 1899
- Pseudomelania (Oonia) limneiformis Cossmann, 1885
- Pseudomelania (Oonia) similis Münster, 1841
Subgenus Rhabdoconcha
- Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) spirastriata Wang, 1977[1]
- Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) brongniarti Klipstein, 1843
- Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) schaeferi Kittl, 1894
- Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) triadica Kittl, 1894
Unknown subgenus
- Pseudomelania aonis Kittl, 1894
- Pseudomelania calloviensis (Hébert & Deslongchamps, 1860)[2]
- Pseudomelania feruglioi Ferrari, 2012[3]
- Pseudomelania frankei Kuhn, 1936
- Pseudomelania gaudryi Kittl, 1894
- Pseudomelania gracilis Mansuy, 1914
- Pseudomelania hagenowi Klipstein, 1843
- Pseudomelania inornata Terquem & Piette 1865[4]
- Pseudomelania miles Kittl, 1894
- Pseudomelania muensteri Wissmann, 1841
- Pseudomelania remtsaensis Cox, 1969[2]
- Pseudomelania subsimilis Kittl, 1894
- Pseudomelania subterebra Kittl, 1894
- Pseudomelania sutherlandii (Baily, 1855)
- Pseudomelania subula Kittl, 1894
References
- "†Pseudomelania Pictet and Campiche 1862 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 11 June 2016.
- Szabó J. & Jaitly A. K. (2004). "Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India VIII. The gastropod fauna. Part II: Discohelicidae, Neritomorpha, Caenogastropoda". Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22: 9–26. PDF.
- Ferrari S. M. (2012). "New Early Jurassic gastropods from west-central Patagonia, Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0090.
- Monari, Stefano; Gatto, Roberto; Valentini, Mara; Weis, Robert (January 2026). "Caenogastropods and heterobranch gastropods from the Hettangian deposits of Luxembourg: palaeobiogeography and Early Jurassic faunal recovery in the western Tethys". Papers in Palaeontology. 12 (1). doi:10.1002/spp2.70062. hdl:11577/3580298. ISSN 2056-2799.
- Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475