Proserpina (gastropod)

Proserpina is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Proserpinidae.[1]

Proserpina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:	Helicinoidea
Family:	Proserpinidae
Genus:	Proserpina G. B. Sowerby II, 1839
Type species
Proserpina nitida G. B. Sowerby II, 1839
Synonyms
Despoena Newton, 1891 (junior objective synonym) Odontostoma d'Orbigny, 1842 Proserpina (Despoenella) H.B. Baker, 1923· accepted, alternate representation Proserpina (Proserpina) G.B. Sowerby II, 1839· accepted, alternate representation

Proserpina is the type genus of the family Proserpinidae.[2]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Proserpina include Cuba[3] and Jamaica[4] .

Species

Species within the genus Proserpina include:

• Proserpina bidentata C. B. Adams, 1850[4]
• Proserpina depressa (d’Orbigny, 1842)[3]
• Proserpina globulosa (d’Orbigny, 1842)[3]
• Proserpina infortunata
• Proserpina linguifera (Jonas, 1839)[4]
• † Proserpina milleri (Fulton, 1915)
• Proserpina nitida Sowerby II, 1839[4]
• Proserpina pisum C. B. Adams, 1850[4]
• Proserpina planior
• Proserpina scudderae Thompson, 1980[5]

References

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2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
3. "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
4. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
5. . Neritopsine Gastropods, accessed 06 March 2014.

• Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Newton R. B. (1891). Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons contained in other collections belonging to the Geological Department of the Museum. London, British Museum, XXVIII + 365 pp
• Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. note: type species fixation