Protatlanta
| Protatlanta Temporal range: Miocene–Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Pterotracheoidea |
| Family: | Atlantidae |
| Genus: | Protatlanta Tesch, 1908[2] |
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Atlanta is a genus of pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the family Atlantidae.
Species
Species in the genus Atlanta include:
- Protatlanta souleyeti (Smith, 1888) - type species and the only Recent species in the genus Protatlanta[1]
- Protatlanta mediterranea Issel, 1915 - recent, sometimes is this considered as separate species[3]
- † Protatlanta rotundata (Gabb, 1873)[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Janssen A. W. (2007). "Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea, Janthinoidea, Thecosomata and Gymnosomata) from the Pliocene of Pangasinan (Luzon, Philippines)". Scripta Geologica 135.
- ↑ Tesch J. J. (1908). "The Pteropoda of the Leyden museum". Notes from the Leyden Museum 29: 181-203.
- ↑ Stoch F. (ed.) Atlantidae. in: CHECKLIST OF THE SPECIES OF THE ITALIAN FAUNA. On-line version 2.0. http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ Last update: December 3, 2003, accessed 20 August 2010.
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