Janthina typica is an extinct species of holoplanktonic sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the violet snails or purple storm snails.[1]
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Janthina typica |
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Shell of † Jathina typica (specimen at MNHN, Paris) |
Scientific classification |
Domain: |
Eukaryota |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Mollusca |
Class: |
Gastropoda |
Subclass: |
Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: |
Epitonioidea |
Family: |
Epitoniidae |
Genus: |
Janthina |
Species: |
†J. typica |
Binomial name |
†Janthina typica
(Bronn, 1861) |
Synonyms |
- † Acrybia (Hartungia) chouberti Chavan, 1951
- † Acrybia chouberti Chavan, 1951
- † Acrybia (Heligmope) dennanti (Tate, 1893)
- † Eunaticina abyssalis Simone, 2014
- † Hartungia dennanti (Tate, 1893)
- † Hartungia elegans Tomida & Nakamura, 2001
- † Hartungia typica Bronn, 1861 (superseded combination)
- † Heligmope dennanti Tate, 1893 (junior subjective synonym)
- † Janthina hartungi Mayer, 1864 (junior subjective synonym)
- † Turbo postulatus Bartrum, 1919 (junior subjective synonym)
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Fossils of this marine species were found in the Azores and also in Pliocene strata in Victoria, Australia.
- Bronn, H. G. (1861 ["1860"]). Die fossilien Reste von Santa Maria, der südlichsten der Azorischen Inseln. Untersucht und beschreiben von Dr. H.G. Bronn. Pp. 116–129, in: Hartung, G. (ed.), Die Azoren in ihrer äusseren Erscheinung und nach ihrer geognostischen Natur geschildert von George Hartung, mit beschreibung der fossilen reste von Prof. H.G. Bronn. Engelmann, Leipzig.
- Cossmann (M.), 1925 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. livraison 13, p. 1-345
- Tate, R. (1893). The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia. Part 4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17: 316–345.
- Bartrum, J. A. (1919). New fossil Mollusca. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 51: 96–100.
- Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.