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Caecum Raines, 2020, s.l.

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Caecum s.l. Fleming, 1813

Caecum Fleming, 1813: 67. Type species (SD: Gray, 1847) Dentalium trachea Montagu, 1803, Northeastern Atlantic.

Odontidium Philippi, 1836: 102. Type species (OD) Odontidium rugulosum Philippi, 1836, Magnisi, Siracuse, Sicily.

Brochina Gray, 1857: 101. Type species (OD) Dentalium glabrum Montagu, 1803, European Atlantic.

Elephantanellum Bartsch, 1920: 567. Type species (OD) Caecum heptagonum Carpenter, 1857. Mazatlan.

Micranellum Bartsch, 1920: 568. Type species (OD) Caecum crebricinctum Carpenter, 1864. San Diego, California.

Caecum (Defolinia) Weisbord, 1962: 166. Type species (OD) Caecum (Defolinia) tomaculum Weisbord, 1962, Mare formation, Punta Gorda, Venezuela †.

Pictocaecum Habe, 1978: 3. Type species (OD) Pictocaecum japonicum Habe, 1978, Kyushu, Japan.

Diagnosis. Shell minute; teleoconch tubular, slightly curved, smooth or crossed by axial ribs, longitudinal grooves, lines, cords, or a combination. Posterior end closed by conical septum. Protoconch planispirally coiled.

Notes

Published as part of Raines, Bret K., 2020, A Rosetta Stone for eastern Pacific Caecidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4827 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4827.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4402308

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fleming
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Caecidae
Genus
Caecum
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Caecum Raines, 2020

References

  • Fleming, J. (1813) Conchology. In: Brewster, D. (Ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. VII. 1810 - 1830. Blackwood, Edinburgh, pp. 55 - 107, pls. 203 - 206.
  • Montagu, G. (1803) Testacea Britanica or Natural History of British shells, marine, land and the freshwater, including the most minute: systematically arranged and embellished with figures. Romsey, London, 497 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 33927
  • Philippi, R. A. (1836) Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. Simonis Schroppii, Berolini, 268 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 100735
  • Gray, J. E. (1857) Guide to the Systematic Distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part 1. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 230 pp.
  • Bartsch, P. (1920) The Caecidae and other marine mollusks from the northwest coast of America. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 10, 565 - 572. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 3611
  • Carpenter, P. P. (1857) Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, xvi + 552 pp.
  • Carpenter, P. P. (1864) Descriptions of new marine shells from the coast of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 3, 207 - 411.
  • Weisbord, N. E. (1962) Late Cenozoic gastropods from Northern Venezuela. Bulletin of American Paleontology, 42 (193), 1 - 672, pls. 1 - 47.
  • Habe, T. (1978) Four new species of Japanese Caecidae. Venus, 37, 1 - 6.