Pseudococculina

Pseudococculina
Original drawing with several views of a shell of Pseudococculina rugosoplicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pseudococculinidae
Genus: Pseudococculina
Type species
Pseudococculina rugosoplicata Schepman, 1908

Pseudococculina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudococculinidae.[2]

Description

The white shell has a patelliform shape with a posterior, inclined apex and a compressed, subspiral nucleus. Inside it has a porcellaneous, muscle-scar horseshoe-shaped, interrupted over the head.

The animal has a plumate gill, at the right side of the head. The right tentacle is thickened. There are two epipodial (i.e. situated in the lateral grooves between foot and mantle) filaments at the posterior part of the foot. The radula has large rhachidian teeth, with the cusp wanting or very obsolete. The fïrst lateral teeth are triangular, followed by 3 smaller, contorted laterals, with distinct cusps, a large cusped fifth lateral, and numerous uncini.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Pseudococculina include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Schepman (1908). Siboga-Exp. 39 Monogr. 49 (1a), 16.
  2. ↑ Pseudococculina .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Schepman M.M. (1909), The prosobranchia of the Shiboga Expedition
  4. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Pseudococculina granulata Schepman, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=592605 on 2012-11-01
  5. ↑ Pseudococculina rimula Simone & Cunha, 2003.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Pseudococculina rugosoplicata Schepman, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=579371 on 2012-11-01
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