Parastrophia

Parastrophia is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Caecidae.[1]

Parastrophia
Parastrophia cornucopiae (Carpenter, 1858)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Caecidae
Genus:
Parastrophia

de Folin, 1869
Type species
Moreletia cornucopiae de Folin, 1869
Synonyms[1]
  • Moreletia de Folin, 1869 (Invalid: junior homonym of Moreletia Gray, 1855; Parastrophia is a replacement name)
  • Pedumicra Iredale & Laseron, 1957
  • Spirolidium O. G. Costa, 1861 (doubtful synonym)
  • Watsonia de Folin, 1880

Species

Species within the genus Parastrophia include:

  • Parastrophia asturiana de Folin, 1870[2]
  • Parastrophia challengeri de Folin, 1880
  • Parastrophia cornucopiae (de Folin, 1869)
  • Parastrophia cygnicollis (Hedley, 1904)
  • Parastrophia elegans (de Folin, 1880)
  • Parastrophia erseusi Hughes, 1993
  • Parastrophia japonica Hinoide & Habe, 1978
  • Parastrophia megadattilida Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013
  • Parastrophia melanesiana Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013
  • Parastrophia pulcherrima Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013
  • Parastrophia queenslandica (Iredale & Laseron, 1957)
  • Parastrophia sumatrana (Thiele, 1925)
  • Parastrophia vanuatuensis Pizzini, Raines & Vannozzi, 2013
Species brought into synonymy
  • Parastrophia filum Melvill, 1906: synonym of Parastrophia cornucopiae (de Folin, 1869)

References
  1. Template:WRMS *
  2. Parastrophia asturiana de Folin, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 August 2010.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Pizzini M., Raines B. & Vannozzi A. (2013) The family Caecidae in the South-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Rissooidea). Bollettino Malacologico, 49 (suppl. 10): 1-78.


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