Volvulella cylichnoides (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917)

Cunha, Carlo M. & Salvador, Rodrigo B., 2018, Type specimens of fossil " Architectibranchia " and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (2), pp. 505-527 : 505

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.27401

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:09EC3F78-C68C-4F9C-A76D-008DDAE13B3E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/832230A8-0009-5B4D-4B87-11D15AEDF256

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scientific name

Volvulella cylichnoides (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917)
status

 

Volvulella cylichnoides (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917) Figure 5L

Volvula cylichnoides Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917: 151.

Type locality.

Dominican Republic; stratum: "Santo Domingan Beds" (either Cercado or Gurabo Formations); age: Miocene/Pliocene.

Type material.

Holotype, ANSP IP3177 (as “type” in Richards 1968: 121); paratype, ANSP IP79027, 1 shell.

Current taxonomic status.

Volvulella cylichnoides (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917), but could be a synonym of Retusa yaquensis Maury, 1917 ( Pilsbry 1922).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

SuperOrder

Heterobranchia

Order

Cephalaspidea

SuperFamily

Bulloidea

Family

Rhizoridae

Genus

Volvulella