Curveulima

Curveulima
Shell of Curveulima obliquistoma (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Curveulima Laseron, 1955
Type species
Curveulima cornuta Laseron, 1955

Curveulima is a major genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.

Species

There are multiple known species to exist within the genus, Curveulima, these include the following:

• Curveulima abrupta (Laseron, 1955)
• Curveulima aupouria (Powell, 1937)
• Curveulima beneitoi (Peñas & Rolán, 2006)
• Curveulima bollonsi (Powell, 1937)
• Curveulima capensis (Thiele, 1915)
• Curveulima carifa (Bartsch, 1915)
• Curveulima cornuta (Laseron, 1955)
• Curveulima dautzenbergi (Pallary, 1900)
• Curveulima denscolubri (Melvill, 1896)
• Curveulima devians (Monterosato, 1884)
• Curveulima eschara (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Curveulima icafra (Bartsch, 1915)
• Curveulima indiscreta (Tate, 1898)
• Curveulima komai (Habe, 1950)
• Curveulima litoris (Laseron, 1955)
• Curveulima macrophtalmica (Warén, 1972)
• Curveulima manifesta (Laseron, 1955)
• Curveulima marshalli (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Curveulima obliquistoma (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
• Curveulima otakauica (Dell, 1956)
• Curveulima pinguicula (A. Adams, 1861)
• Curveulima styla (Hoffman, van Heugten & Lavaleye, 2011)
• Curveulima titahica (Suter, 1908)

Species brought into synonymy

• Curveulima commensalis (Tate, 1898): synonym of Vitreolina commensalis (Tate, 1898)
• Curveulima echinocardiachila (Habe, 1976): synonym of Hypermastus exhinocardiachila (Habe, 1976)
• Curveulima flavipunctata (Habe, 1961): synonym of Amamibalcis flavipunctata (Habe, 1961)
• Curveulima lata (Laseron, 1955): synonym of Parvioris subobtusa (Laseron, 1955)
• Curveulima macrophthalmica (Warén, 1972): synonym of Curveulima macrophtalmica (Warén, 1972)
• Curveulima nishimurai (Habe, 1958): synonym of Eulitoma nishimurai (Habe, 1958)
• Curveulima obtusa (Laseron, 1955): synonym of Melanella obtusa (Laseron, 1955)
• Curveulima quantilla (Turton, 1932): synonym of Curveulima icafra (Bartsch, 1915)
• Curveulima subobtusa (Laseron, 1955): synonym of Parvioris subobtusa (Laseron, 1955)

Taxon inquirendum

• Curveulima kowiensis (Turton, 1932)

References

External links

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