Pruvotinidae is a diverse taxonomic family of cavibelonian solenogasters, shell-less, worm-like marine mollusks.[1]

Pruvotinidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Solenogastres
Family: Pruvotinidae
Heath, 1911
Genera

See text.

Synonyms
  • Parameniidae Simroth, 1893 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym)
  • Pararrhopaliidae Salvini-Plawen, 1972 (synonym)
  • Perimeniidae Nierstrasz, 1908
  • Pruvotiniidae Heath, 1911 (incorrect original spelling)

Genera edit

Subfamily Eleutheromeniinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978

Subfamily Halomeniinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978

Subfamily Lophomeniinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978

Subfamily Pruvotininae Heath, 1911

Subfamily Scheltemaia incertae sedis

Subfamily Unciherpiinae Garcia-Álvarez, Salvini-Plawen & Urgorri, 2001

Synonyms
  • Subfamily Pararrhopaliinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978: synonym of Pruvotininae Heath, 1911
  • Paramenia Pruvot, 1890: synonym of Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903 (invalid: junior homonym of Paramenia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 [Diptera]; Pruvotina and Perimenia are replacement names )
  • Perimenia Nierstrasz, 1908: synonym of Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903

References edit

  1. ^ García-Álvarez, Óscar; v. Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried (2007). "Species and diagnosis of the Families and Genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca)" (PDF). Iberus. 25 (2): 73–143. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2011.
  • Simroth, H. (1893). Aplacophora. In: Bronn, H. G.: Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. 3 (1): 128–233, pl. 1–4.
  • Nierstrasz, H. 1908. The Solenogastres of Discovery-Expedition. Nation. Antarctic Exped. 1901–1904, Natur. Hist., 4:38-46.
  • Heath H. (1911). Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, from August 1899 to June 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser. XVI. The Solenogastress. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 45: 1-182 pl. 1-40
  • Salvini-Plawen, L.v. 1972. Zur Morphologie und Phylogenie der Mollusken: Die Beziehungen der Caudofoveata und der Solenogaster. Z. wiss. Zool., 184(3/4): 205-394
  • García-Álvarez O., Salvini-Plawen L.v., Urgorri V. & Troncoso J.S. (2014). Mollusca. Solenogastres, Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora. Fauna Iberica. 38: 1-294

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