Biology:Paraprososthenia

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Short description: Extinct genus of gastropods


Paraprosostenia
Temporal range: Pleistocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Triculinae
Tribe:
Jullieniini[2]
Genus:
Paraprososthenia

Annandale, 1919[3]

Paraprosostenia is a fossil genus of prehistoric[1] freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Species

Species within the genus Paraprosostenia include:

  • Paraprosostenia minuta Annandale, 1919 - type species, fossil of Pleistocene of Namma in northern Burma,[1] The length of the shell is 6 mm.[2] It was found in freshwater lake beds,[2][3] so it is presumed to be a freshwater species as is the case in all other Triculinae.

Davis (1979) classified also four extant species within the genus Paraprosostenia.[2] Later Davis (1981)[4] referred number of species in Paraprososthenia to be ten.[4] Subsequently Davis et al. (1981)[1] restricted the genus Paraprosostenia to the Pleistocene of Burma.[1] These four extant species were moved to the newly established genus Neoprososthenia:[1]

  • (extant) Paraprososthenia hanseni Brandt, 1970[2] is a synonym of Neoprososthenia hanseni (Brandt, 1970)[4]
  • (extant) Paraprososthenia iijimai Brandt, 1970[2] is a synonym of Neoprososthenia iijimai (Brandt, 1970)[4]
  • (extant) Paraprososthenia levayi (Bavay, 1895)[2] is a synonym of Neoprososthenia levayi (Bavay, 1895)[4]
  • (extant) Paraprososthenia poirieri (Brandt, 1970)[2] is a synonym of Neoprososthenia poirieri (Brandt, 1970)[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H., Elaine Hoagland K., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1981). "Kunmingia, a New Genus of Triculinae (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from China: Phenetic and Cladistic Relationships". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 136: 165-193. JSTOR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. ISBN:978-1-4223-1926-0. at Google Books.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Annandale N. (1919). "The gastropod fauna of old lake beds in upper Burma". Records of the Geological Survey of India 50: 209-240, 3 plates.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Davis G. M. (1981). "Different Modes of Evolution and Adaptive Radiation in the Pomatiopsidae (Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda)". Malacologia 21(1-2): 209-262. table 1.

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