Itaborahia Explained

Itaborahia is a fossil genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Bulimulidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.[1]

Species

The only species currently in this genus is Itaborahia lamegoi Maury, 1935, although some other species were previously included within this genus.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Salvador . Rodrigo Brincalepe . Simone . Luiz Ricardo Lopes de . Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 2013 . 10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001 . free .