Parafossarulus priscillae
Parafossarulus priscillae is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
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Parafossarulus priscillae (Girotti, 1972)[1] | |
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Neumayria priscillae Girotti, 1972 Bithynia (Parafossarulus) priscillae (Girotti, 1972) |
Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus to a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.
Distribution
The (fossil) distribution of this species includes:
- Italy
- France
- the Netherlands
- England
References
- Girotti O. (1972). "Il genre Neumayria Stefani 1877 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia)". Geologica Romana 11 115-136, page 122, fig. 5-13.
- Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
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