Galeodea
Galeodea | |
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Galeodea rugosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Cassidae |
Genus: | Galeodea Link, 1807 |
Type species | |
Buccinum echinophorum (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Galeodea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae.[1]
Fossil record
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range: from 99.7 to 0.126 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Galeodea include:
- Galeodea aegyptiaca Oppenheim, 1906
- Galeodea alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1906)
- Galeodea allani Finlay and Marwick, 1937†
- Galeodea apodemetes Marwick, 1934 †
- Galeodea bicatenata Sowerby, 1815
- Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
- Galeodea depressa Buch, 1831†
- Galeodea echinophora Linnaeus, 1758
- Galeodea flemingi Beu & Maxwell, 1990 †
- Galeodea geniculosa Marwick, 1942 †
- Galeodea hoaraui Drivas & Jay, 1989
- Galeodea keyteri (Kilburn, 1975)
- Galeodea koureos Gardner, 1939
- Galeodea leucodoma Dall, 1907
- Galeodea maccamleyi Ponder, 1983
- Galeodea megacephala Philippi, 1843†
- Galeodea modesta (Suter, 1917) †
- Galeodea petersoni Conrad, 1854†
- Galeodea planotecta Meyer and Aldrich, 1886†
- Galeodea plauta Beu, 2008
- Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Galeodea senex (Hutton, 1873) †
- Galeodea sulcata (Hutton, 1873) †
- Galeodea sutterensis Dickerson, 1916†
- Galeodea triganceae Dell, 1953
- Galeodea wylliei Marwick, 1931 †
- Species brought into synonymy
- Galeodea beui Kreipl & Alf, 2002 : synonym of Galeodea alcocki (E.A. Smith, 1906)
- Galeodea carolimartini Beets, 1943 † : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
- Galeodea echinophorella Habe, 1961 : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
- Galeodea marginalba Yamamoto & Sakurai, 1977 : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
- Galeodea noharai Noda, 1980 † : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
- Galeodea tyrrhena (Gmelin, 1791) : synonym of Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771)
Bibliography
- Beu A.G. (2008) Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). In Héros V., Cowie R.H. & Bouchet P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 269-387
References
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- 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Galeodea Link, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137747 on 2011-02-23
- ↑ Paleobiology Database
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