Leucotina

Leucotina
Shell of Leucotina knopi (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Amathinidae
Genus:	Leucotina A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Leucotina niphonensisA. Adams, 1860
Synonyms
Actaeon (Leucotina)A. Adams, 1860 AdelactaeonCossmann, 1895 Leucotina (Adelactaeon)Cossmann, 1895 MyoniaA. Adams, 1860 (Invalid: junior homonym of MyoniaDana, 1847 [Bivalvia]; Adelactaeon is a replacement name)

Leucotina is a genus of small sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Amathinidae. ^[1]

Species

• Leucotina adamsi Kuroda & Habe, 1971
• Leucotina ampulla Saurin, 1962
• Leucotina casta (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina dianae (A. Adams, 1854)
• Leucotina elongata (van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998)
• Leucotina elongata G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
• Leucotina eva Thiele, 1925
• Leucotina exarata A. Adams, 1860
• † Leucotina granulocostata Laws, 1939
• Leucotina gratiosa Melvill, 1898
• Leucotina helva Hedley, 1900
• Leucotina insculpta A. Adams, 1860
• Leucotina japonica (A. Adams, 1860)
• Leucotina jaskensis Melvill, 1897
• Leucotina knopi Poppe & Tagaro, 2010
• Leucotina lilyae (van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998)
• Leucotina micra (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
• Leucotina natalensis E. A. Smith, 1910
• † Leucotina ovalis (Hutton, 1885)
• Leucotina padangensis Thiele, 1925
• † Leucotina praecursoria (Suter, 1917)
• Leucotina punctata A. Adams, 1860
• Leucotina puncturata (E. A. Smith, 1872)
• Leucotina reginae Saurin, 1959
• Leucotina speciosa (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina sulcata A. Adams, 1860

Species brought into synonymy

• Leucotina ambigua(Hutton, 1885): synonym of Leucotina casta(A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina amoena(A. Adams, 1853): synonym of Monotygma amoena (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina digitalis(Dall & Bartsch, 1906): synonym of Monotygma amoena (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina estherAngas, 1867: synonym of Leucotina casta(A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina formosaW. H. Turton, 1932: synonym of Leucotina elongataG. B. Sowerby III, 1892
• Leucotina niphonensisA. Adams, 1860: synonym of Leucotina dianae(A. Adams, 1854)
• Leucotina sagamiensisKuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Maxacteon sagamiensis (Kuroda & Habe, 1971) (original combination)
• Leucotina sundaicaThiele, 1925: synonym of Leucotina speciosa(A. Adams, 1853)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leucotina A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181116 on 2021-05-06

• Hori, S. & Tsuchida, E. (1995). A revision of the systematic position of genus Leucotina Gastropoda: Heterostropha). Venus. 54: 279-293

External links

• Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5: 299-303
• Cossmann, M. (1895). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Première livraison. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 159 pp., 7 pls.
• Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265.