Volvulella minutissima (Gabb, 1860), new comb.

Cunha, Carlo M. & Salvador, Rodrigo B., 2018, Type specimens of fossil " Architectibranchia " and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (2), pp. 505-527 : 505

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.27401

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:09EC3F78-C68C-4F9C-A76D-008DDAE13B3E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D950033C-95DB-E478-AB4D-8FB7064E9755

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scientific name

Volvulella minutissima (Gabb, 1860), new comb.
status

 

Volvulella minutissima (Gabb, 1860), new comb. View in CoL Figure 6B

Volvula minutissima Gabb, 1860b: 386-387, pl. 67, fig. 52.

Type locality.

Caldwell County, Texas, USA; stratum: uncertain; age: Eocene.

Type material.

Syntype, ANSP IP13267, 1 shell (as “type” in Richards 1968: 159).

New taxonomic status.

Volvulella minutissima (Gabb, 1860), new comb. Harris (1895b) considered the species valid. The genus Volvulella Newton, 1891 is a replacement name for Volvula A. Adams, 1850 non Gistel, 1848 ( Valdés 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Cephalaspidea

Family

Rhizoridae

Genus

Volvulella