Pseudostomatella

Pseudostomatella
Apertural view of a shell of Pseudostomatella elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Subfamily:	Stomatellinae
Genus:	Pseudostomatella Thiele, 1921
Type species
Turbo papyraceus Gmelin, 1791

Pseudostomatella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Stomatellinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Distribution

This marine genus has a wide distribution. The species occur in the Central and East Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia and off Australia

Species

Species within the genus Pseudostomatella include:

• Pseudostomatella baconi (Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854)
• Pseudostomatella clathratula (Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854)
• Pseudostomatella coccinea (A. Adams, 1850)
  • forma : Pseudostomatella coccinea flammulata (f) Pilsbry, H.A., 1920
• Pseudostomatella cycloradiata Usticke, 1959
• Pseudostomatella decolorata (Gould, A.A., 1848)
• Pseudostomatella erythrocoma (Dall, 1889)
• Pseudostomatella martini Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006
• Pseudostomatella orbiculata (A. Adams, 1850)
• Pseudostomatella papyracea (Gmelin, J.F., 1791)
• Pseudostomatella selecta (A. Adams, 1855)

Species brought into synonymy

• Pseudostomatella maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834): synonym of Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Pseudostomatella rubra (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Stomatolina rubra (Lamarck, 1822)

Taxa inquirenda

• Pseudostomatella decorata (A. Adams, 1855)
• Pseudostomatella monilifera (A. Adams, 1850)
• Pseudostomatella splendidula (A. Adams, 1854)

References

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (2001) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda Bivalvia Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Type Figures. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 208 pp.

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• Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online.

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