Proserpina (gastropod)

Proserpina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Proserpinidae
Genus: Proserpina
G. B. Sowerby II, 1839

Proserpina is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Proserpinidae. Proserpina is the type genus of the family Proserpinidae.[1]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Proserpina include Cuba[2] and Jamaica[3] .

Species

Species within the genus Proserpina include:

References

  1. Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
  4. . Neritopsine Gastropods, accessed 06 March 2014.
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