Paludinella
| Paludinella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Paludinella Pfeiffer, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Cingula globularis Hanley in Thorpe, 1844 | |
Paludinella is a genus of minute salt marsh snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae. [1]
Species
The genus Paludinella contains the following species:
- Paludinella conica
- Paludinella globularis (Hanley in Thorpe, 1844)
- Paludinella minima
- Paludinella semperi
- Paludinella sicana (Brugnone, 1876)
- Paludinella vitrea
- Species brought into synonymy
- Paludinella littorina auct. non delle Chiaje, 1828: synonym of Paludinella globularis (Hanley in Thorpe, 1844)
- Paludinella littorina (delle Chiaje, 1828): synonym of Melarhaphe neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Paludinella newcombiana Hemphill, 1877: synonym of Littorina subrotundata (Carpenter, 1864)
Notes: Kadolsky (2012) has showed that the real Helix littorina delle Chiaje, 1828, was most probably based on small specimens of Melarhaphe neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758). However, Pfeiffer (1841) based the genus Paludinella on the taxonomic extension given to that name by Philippi (1836), i.e. a misidentified type species. For Paludinella littorina of authors, non delle Chiaje, Kadolsky restored the name Paludinella globularis and, under Art. 70.3 of the code of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, designated the latter as type species of Paludinella.
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Paludinella Pfeiffer, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137682 on 2012-08-23
- Nomenclator Zoologicus info
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
- Kadolsky D. (2012) Nomenclatural comments on non-marine molluscs occurring in the British Isles. Journal of Conchology 41(1): 65-90.