Laevistrombus

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Laevistrombus
Temporal range: Tertiary–Recent
Laevistrombus canarium turturella 01.JPG
Five different views of a shell of an adult Laevistrombus turturella : abapertural (upper left), right lateral (center), apertural (upper right), apical (lower left) and basal (lower right)
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Five different views of a shell of an adult Laevistrombus canarium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Laevistrombus
Abbott, 1960
Type species
Strombus canarium
Synonyms

Strombus (Laevistrombus)Abbott, 1960 (original rank)

Contents

Laevistrombus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. [1]

History

The taxon Laevistrombus was introduced in the literature as a subgenus of Strombus by Tetsuaki Kira (1955) in the third printing of the 1st edition of Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. It comprised two species, Strombus (Laevistrombus) canarium and Strombus (L.) isabella Lamarck, 1822. No type specimen was designated, and Kira gave no formal description or statement of differentiation, as required by the ICZN code to validate the name. In a later version of the book, Laevistrombus was elevated to genus level, but a description was still lacking. Rüdiger Bieler and Richard Petit (1996) considered it a nomen nudum , and the authorship was transferred to Robert Tucker Abbott (1960), who had provided a proper description and illustrations of Laevistrombus and specified a type species, Strombus canarium L., in the first volume of his monograph Indo-Pacific Mollusca. [2] [3] [4] The currently accepted classification was proposed by Sepkoski (2002), who elevated Laevistrombus to genus level based on palaeontological data. [5]

Species

Living species within the genus Laevistrombus include: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Laevistrombus Abbott, 1960 . MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Laevistrombus Abbott, 1960. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531661 on 21 February 2023 .
  2. ↑ Kira, T. (1955). Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka, Japan: Hoikusha. p. 204.
  3. ↑ Bieler, R.; Petit, R. E. (1996). "Additional notes on nomina first introduced by Tetsuaki Kira in "Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan"". Malacologia. 38 (1–2): 33–34.
  4. ↑ Abbott, R. T. (1960). Indo-Pacific Mollusca Volume 1: The Genus Strombus in the Indo-Pacific. Philadelphia, USA: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. pp. 33–146.
  5. ↑ Sepkoski, J. J. Jr. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 95.


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