Brachystomia

Brachystomia
Shell of Brachystomia eulimoides (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Brachystomia
Monterosato, 1884
Type species
Odostomia rissoides Hanley, 1844
Synonyms[1]
  • Odontostomia (Brachystomia) Monterosato, 1884 superseded rank
  • Odostomia (Brachystomia) Monterosato, 1884 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Zastoma Iredale, 1915 (Invalid: unnecessary nom. nov. pro Brachystomia Monterosato, 1884, by Iredale treated as a junior homonym of Brachystoma J.S. Gardner, 1876.)

Brachystomia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Description

(Original description in Italian) The aperture is short, and the lip is not dentate . The shells are small, polished, Rissoiform, or turriculate. There is a small tooth on the columella.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Brachystomia include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Brachystomia albella (Lovén, 1846): synonym of Odostomia albel]] (Lovén, 1846): synonym of Odostomia unidentata (Montagu, 1803) (superseded combination)
  • Brachystomia cerullii Marquet, 1997: synonym of † [[Ondina cerullii]] (Cossmann, 1921) (junior objective synonym, unnecessary replacement name, already replaced by Cossmann 1921
  • Brachystomia electa (Jeffreys, 1883): synonym of Brachystomia eulimoides (Hanley, 1844)
  • Brachystomia improbabilis (Oberling, 1970): synonym of Odostomia improbabilis Oberling, 1970 (superseded combination)
  • Brachystomia lukisi (Jeffreys, 1859): synonym of Odostomia lukisii Jeffreys, 1859

References

  1. ^ a b c Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Brachystomia Monterosato, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=491631 on 2015-12-14
  2. ^ Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Landau B.M. & LaFollette P.I. (2015). The Pyramidellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Cainozoic Research. 15(1-2): 13-54.