Taxonavigation

Familia: Pachychilidae
Genus: Paracrostoma
Species (3): P. huegelii – P. martini – P. tigrina

Name

Paracrostoma Cossmann, 1900: Rev. crit. Paléozool., 4, 42.

• New replacement name for Acrostoma Brot, 1870: Amer. J. Conch., 10: 272.
• New replacement name for Brotella Rovereto, 1899: Atti Soc. Ligustica, 10, 109.
• * Type species: Melania huegelii Philippi, 1843, in: Philippi, 1842–49, by subsequent designation by

Annandale, 1920.

References

• Köhler, F. & Glaubrecht, M. 2007: Out of Asia and into India: on the molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the endemic freshwater gastropod Paracrostoma Cossmann, 1900 (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae). Biological journal of the Linnean Society 91(4): 627–651. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00866.x Reference page.