Parafossarulus priscillae

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: Pliocene–Early Pleistocene
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
Family:
Bithyniidae
Genus:
Parafossarulus
Species:
P. priscillae
Binomial name
Parafossarulus priscillae
(Girotti, 1972)[1]
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

The (fossil) distribution of this species includes:

  • Italy
  • France
  • the Netherlands
  • England

References
  1. Girotti O. (1972). "Il genre Neumayria Stefani 1877 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)". Geologica Romana 11 115-136, page 122, fig. 5-13.
  2. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.


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