Bellastraea
| Bellastraea | |
|---|---|
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| Bellastraea squamifera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Bellastraea Iredale, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Bellastraea kesteveni Iredale, 1924 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Micrastraea Cotton, 1939 | |
Bellastraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
The Australian Faunal Directory considers this genus as a synonym of Astralium Link, 1807 [2]
Species
Species within the genus Bellastraea include:
- Bellastraea aurea (Jonas, 1844)[3]
- Bellastraea rutidoloma (Tate, 1893)[4]
- Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Astraea kesteveni T. Iredale, 1924: synonym of Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
- Bellastraea kesteveni (Iredale, 1924):[5] synonym of Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
- Bellastraea urvillei Philippi, R.A., 1852: synonym of Astralium tentoriiforme (Jonas, J.H., 1845)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bellastraea Iredale, 1924. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 October 2011.
- ↑ Astralium, Link, 1807
- ↑ Bellastraea aurea (Jonas, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Bellastraea rutidoloma (Tate, 1893). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ↑ Bellastraea kesteveni (Iredale, 1924). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- Iredale, 1924, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49(3): 182, 232
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.
- Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245