Arene (gastropod)

Arene
Shell and operculum of Arene cruentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Angarioidea
Family: Areneidae
Genus: Arene
Adams, 1845
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Liotia (Arene) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Arene is a genus of small sea snails that have a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Areneidae. [1]

The genus Arene (and also the genus Cinysca) are placed within the family Areneidae, although Areneidae was not officially described as a taxon name.[1] Areneidae is provisionally placed within the superfamily Angarioidea, according to Williams et al. (2008)[2]

Species

Species within the genus Arene include:[1]

Other species include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bouchet, P. (2013). Arene H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413481 on 2014-01-23
  2. Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x
  3. Lee A. Schremp, Archeogastropoda from the Pliocene Imperial Formation of California, Journal of Paleontology > Vol. 55, No. 5, Sep., 1981, p. 1133
  4. 1 2 W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43 p. 344-345 (1908)
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