Protoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.[1]
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| Genus: | Protoma Baird, 1870
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Species
editExtant species within the genus Protoma include:
- Protoma knockeri Baird, 1870[2]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Protoma capensis (Krauss, 1848): synonym of Turritella capensis (Krauss, 1848)
Extinct species
edit- † Protoma cathedralis Brongniart 1856
- † Protoma deshayesi d'Archiac 1850
- † Protoma renevieri d'Archiac and Haime 1854
- † Protoma retrodilatatum Vredenburg 1928
- † Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832
- † Protoma sindiense Vredenburg 1928
- † Protoma subrenevieri Vredenburg 1928
Fossils of sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, South Africa, India, and Pakistan from Oligocene to Quaternary (age range: 28.4 to 0.012 million years ago).[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Protoma Baird, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
- ^ Protoma knockeri Baird, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
- ^ Fossilworks
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg