Bellastraea
Appearance
Bellastraea | |
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Bellastraea squamifera | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Turbinidae |
Genus: | Bellastraea Iredale, 1924 |
Type species | |
Bellastraea kesteveni Iredale, 1924
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Synonyms[1] | |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Bellastraea Iredale, 1924. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 October 2011.
- ^ "Astralium, Link, 1807". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
- ^ 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