Ponderinella

Ponderinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Tornidae
Genus: Ponderinella
B.A. Marshall, 1988
Type species
Ponderinella lignicola B.A. Marshall, 1988

Ponderinella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Tornidae.[1][2]

Species

This genus includes the following species:

  • Ponderinella carlosi Rolán & Rubio, 2002
  • Ponderinella finalis Rolán & Rubio, 2002
  • Ponderinella gabonensis Rolán & Rubio, 2012
  • Ponderinella ghanensis (Rolán & Ryall, 2000)
  • Ponderinella lignicola B.A. Marshall, 1988
  • Ponderinella major Hasegawa, 1997
  • Ponderinella minutissima Rolán & Rubio, 2002
  • Ponderinella skeneoides Rolán & Rubio, 2002
  • Ponderinella tornatica (Moolenbeek & Hoenselaar, 1995)
  • Ponderinella xacriaba Absalão, 2009

References

  1. Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Ponderinella B.A. Marshall, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390692 on 2012-08-13
  • Marshall B.A. 1988. Skeneidae, Vitrinellidae and Orbitestellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) associated with biogenic substrata from bathyal depths off New Zealand and New South Wales. Journal of Natural History, 22(4): 949-1004.
  • Rolán E. & Rubio F. 2012. A new species and range extension of Ponderinella (Gastropoda, Tornidae) in West Africa. Iberus, 30(2): 35-39


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