Parafossarulus priscillae is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Parafossarulus priscillae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Parafossarulus |
Species: | P. priscillae
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Binomial name | |
Parafossarulus priscillae | |
Synonyms | |
Neumayria priscillae Girotti, 1972 Bithynia (Parafossarulus) priscillae (Girotti, 1972) |
Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus to a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.
Distribution
editThe (fossil) distribution of this species includes:
- Italy
- France
- the Netherlands
- England
References
edit- ^ Girotti O. (1972). "Il genre Neumayria Stefani 1877 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)". Geologica Romana 11 115-136, page 122, fig. 5-13.
- ^ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.