Longchaeus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Longchaeus
Two views of a shell of Longchaeus suturalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Longchaeus
Mörch, 1875
Type species
Pyramidella punctata
Schubert & Wagner, 1829
Synonyms[1]
  • Callolongchaeus Dall, 1903
  • Lonchaeus (misspelling)
  • Obeliscus (Longchaeus) Mörch, 1875 (original rank)
  • Pharcidella Dall, 1889
  • Pyramidella (Longchaeus) Mörch, 1875
  • Pyramidella (Pharcidella) Dall, 1889
  • Pyramidella (Voluspa) Dall & Bartsch, 1904
  • Voluspa (gastropod) Dall & Bartsch, 1904
  • Wingenella Laseron, 1959

Species

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Species within the genus Longchaeus include:[1]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Longchaeus calesi Bartsch, 1955: synonym of Longchaeus suturalis (H. C. Lea, 1843)
  • Longchaeus canaliculatus (Sowerby II, 1874): synonym of Longchaeus insularum (Pilsbry, 1922)
  • Longchaeus marionae Bartsch, 1955: synonym of Longchaeus suturalis (H. C. Lea, 1843)
  • Longchaeus pricena (Laseron, 1959): synonym of Longchaeus obtusus (Laseron, 1959)
  • Longchaeus punctatus (Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829): synonym of Longchaeus acus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Longchaeus schanderi (van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998): synonym of Pyramidella inopinata (Schander, 1994)
  • Longchaeus sulcatus (A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Longchaeus maculosus (Lamarck, 1822)

References

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  1. ^ a b c WoRMS (2011). Longchaeus Mörch, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415578 on 2011-10-26
  • Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
  • Laseron C.F. (1959). Family Pyramidellidae (Mollusca) from Northern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 10(2): 177-267
  • Robba E. (2013) Tertiary and Quaternary fossil pyramidelloidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 144: 1-191
  • Landau B.M. & LaFollette P.I. (2015). The Pyramidellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Cainozoic Research. 15(1-2): 13-54
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