Brasilennea
| Brasilennea | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Brasilennea arethusae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | †Brasilennea Maury, 1935[2] |
| Type species | |
| †B. arethusae Maury 1935[2] | |
| Species | |
| Diversity[3] | |
| 3 extinct species | |
Brasilennea is a fossil genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, in Rio de Janeiro.[3] The most characteristic feature of the genus is its two spiral furrows on the body whorl.[3]
The generic name Brasilennea originally intended to imply that it is a Brazilian genus that is very similar and related to the African genus Ennea.[2] This is no longer the case, however: while the genus was originally classified in the family Streptaxidae,[2] Brasilennea was then later transferred to the family Cerionidae.[3]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Brasilennea include:
- †Brasilennea arethusae Maury, 1935[2] - type species of genus
- †Brasilennea guttula Salvador & Simone, 2012[4]
- †Brasilennea minor Trindade, 1956[5]
References
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- ↑ Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 53 (2): 5–46. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Maury, Carlotta Joaquina (1935). "New genera and new species of fossil terrestrial Mollusca from Brazil". American Museum Novitates (764). hdl:2246/4568.
- 1 2 3 4 Salvador, R.B.; Rowson, B.; Simone, L.R.L. 2011. Rewriting the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): new family assignment of the Brazilian Palaeocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 445–447. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr021
- ↑ Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 43-50. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/043-050
- ↑ Trindade, N.M. 1956. Contribuição ao estudo da malacofauna da São José de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Notas Preliminares e Estudos do Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral 96: 1–22.