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Pseudostomatella
Apertural view of a shell of Pseudostomatella elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Stomatellinae
Genus: Pseudostomatella
Thiele, 1921
Type species
Turbo papyraceus
Gmelin, 1791

Pseudostomatella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stomatellinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Distribution

This marine genus has a wide distribution. The species occur in the Central and East Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia and off Australia

Species

Species within the genus Pseudostomatella include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Pseudostomatella maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834): synonym of Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Pseudostomatella rubra (Lamarck, 1822):[5] synonym of Stomatolina rubra (Lamarck, 1822)
Taxa inquirenda
  • Pseudostomatella decorata (A. Adams, 1855)
  • Pseudostomatella monilifera (A. Adams, 1850)
  • Pseudostomatella splendidula (A. Adams, 1854)

References

  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (2001) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda Bivalvia Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Type Figures. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 208 pp.