Pseudotoma Explained

Pseudotoma is an extinct genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Turridae.^[1]

First appearing 48.6 Ma and believed to go extinct 7.2 Ma. Specimens of Pseudotoma have been found in Austria, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, The UK, and The continental United States. The Pseudotoma lived during the Paleocene epoch of Denmark and Greenland, The Oligocene epoch of Mexico, and in the Pliocene epoch of Italy

Description

The ovate, fusiform, shell is short and stout. The spire is about the length of the aperture. The columella is straight, very short, axis impervious. The siphonal canal is very short and wide. The anal sulcus is wide, moderately deep, close to the suture. The spiral sculpture is feeble. The axial sculpture consists of moderately strong riblets. The operculum is wide, ovate, with apical nucleus. The type species is Pleurotoma intorta described by Brocchi in 1814.^[2]

Species

• Pseudotoma alazana (Cooke 1928)^[3]
• † Pseudotoma bonellii (Bellardi, 1847)
• Pseudotoma colpophora Cossmann, 1889
• Pseudotoma coronata (Lamarck, 1803) (synonym: Fusus coronatus Lamarck, 1803)
• † Pseudotoma escheri (Mayer, 1861)
• † Pseudotoma genei (Bellardi, 1847)
• † Pseudotoma giselae R. Hoernes & Auinger, 1891
• Pseudotoma heilprini Aldrich 1885^[3]
• Pseudotoma intorta Brocchi 1814^{[3] [4]}
• Pseudotoma liancurtensis (de Boury, 1899) (synonym: Genotia liancurtensis de Boury, 1899^[5]
• Pseudotoma loustaui (Deshayes, 1865)
• † Pseudotoma pluriplicata (Cossmann, 1902)
• † Pseudotoma praecedens Bellardi, 1877
• Pseudotoma quieta (Deshayes, 1865)
• † Pseudotoma subintorta (d'Orbigny, 1852)
• † Pseudotoma subspinosa O. Boettger, 1896

Synonyms:

• † Pseudotoma huttoni Finlay, 1924: synonym of † Austrotoma suteri (Cossmann, 1916)

References

• Rovereto G. (1899). Prime ricerche sinonimiche sui generi dei Gasteropodi. Atti della Società Ligustica di Scienze Naturale e Geografiche, Genova 10: 101-110
• de Boury E., 1899. Révision des pleurotomes éocènes du Bassin de Paris (suite). La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes (3)29, n° 340: 62-65
• Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, J. Frýda, B. Hausdorf, W. Ponder, Á. Valdés & A. Warén. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1-2): 1–397.
• Powell, A. W. B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae: An evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with lists of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 5: 1–184, pl. 1-23.

External links

• Bellardi L. (1875). Novae pleurotomidarum Pedimonti et Liguriae fossilium: dispositionis prodromus. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 1: 16-24
• Finlay H. J. (1924). The molluscan fauna of Target Gully: Part 1. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 495-516.
• Museo Geologico
• Società Italiana di Malacologia
• MNHN, Paris: Genotia liancurtensis

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Pseudotoma Bellardi, 1875 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990283 on 2023-06-10
2. https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003646038 W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43
3. http://www.palaeos.org/Pseudotoma Palaeos
4. http://fossile1.free.fr/fossiles/Genota%20%28Pseudotoma%29%20intorta,%20Brocchi%201814/ Fossiles
5. https://docplayer.fr/159942041-Sur-la-position-systematique-des-gastropoda-eocenes-du-bassin-de-paris-classes-parvisipho-et-siphonalia-par-jacques-lerenard.html JacquesLerenard: Sur la position systematique des gastropoda eocenes du bassin de Paris-classes-Parvisipho et Siphonalia; Cossmanniana tome 3 nu. 3; mai 1995