Titiscania

Titiscania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Neritopsoidea
Family: Titiscaniidae
Bergh, 1890[1]
Genus: Titiscania
Bergh, 1890[1]

Titiscania is a genus of marine gastropods in the superfamily Neritopsoidea.[2]

Titiscania is the type genus[2] and also the only genus in the family Titiscaniidae.

The original vernacular spelling "Die Titiscanien" by Rudolph Bergh (1890)[1] has been latinized by Johannes Thiele (1891).[2]

Excepting some parasitic forms, Titiscania is the only genus of gastropod outside of the Heterobranchia to have secondarily lost its mineralized shell,[3] which it sheds after its larval phase.[4]

Species

Species within the genus Titiscania include:

Referefnces

  1. ^ a b c (German) Bergh R. (1890). "Die Titiscanien eine Families der rhipidoglossen Gasteropoden". Morphologisches Jahrbuch 16: 1-26, plates 1-3. page 1.
  2. ^ a b c Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  3. ^ Dayrat B. & Tillier S. (2003). "Goals and limits of phylogenetics. The euthyneuran gastropods". In Lydeard C. & Lindberg D. R. (eds.). Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC. Molecular systematics and phylogeography of mollusks. 
  4. ^ Kano Y., Chiba S. & Kase T. (2002). "Major adaptive radiation in neritopsine gastropods estimated from 28S rRNA sequences and fossil records". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 269: 2457. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2178.
  5. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Titiscania limacina Bergh, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532065 on 2011-03-26
  6. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Titiscania shinkishihataii Taki, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532066 on 2011-03-26

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