TAXONOMIC REMARKS ON CENOZOIC PSEUDOLIVID GASTROPODS FROM SOUTH-AMERICA

Authors
VERMEIJ GJ DEVRIES TJ
Citation
Gj. Vermeij et Tj. Devries, TAXONOMIC REMARKS ON CENOZOIC PSEUDOLIVID GASTROPODS FROM SOUTH-AMERICA, The Veliger, 40(1), 1997, pp. 23-28
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology",Zoology
Journal title
The Veliger → ACNP
ISSN journal
00423211
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
23 - 28
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-3211(1997)40:1<23:TROCPG>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The neogastropod family Pseudolividae was represented in the Neogene o f Peru and Chile by a single genus, which we name Testallium to replac e Gastridium Sowerby, 1846, non Gastridium Sowerby, 1842, or Gastridiu m Modeer, 1793. Besides the type species, Testallium cepa (Sowerby, 18 46), from the Miocene of Peru and Chile, we recognize T. voluta (Olsso n, 1932) from the early Miocene of northern Peru, and T. escalonia, sp . nov. from the Pliocene of Chile. Gastridium retusum Philippi, 1887, is assigned to Buccinorbis Conrad, 1865.