Potamides (gastropod)

This article is about a genus of sea snails. For the mythological nymphs, see Potamides (mythology).

Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.

Potamides Temporal range: Permian - Quaternary PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Three fossil shells of Potamides migralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Potamididae
Genus:	† Potamides Brongniart, 1810[1]
Synonyms
Cerithium (Potamides) Cerithium (Potamis) Potamides (Potamides) Brongniart, 1810 † Potamides (Potamidopsis) Munier-Chalmas, 1900· accepted, alternate representation † Potamides (Tylochilus) Cossmann, 1889· accepted, alternate representation

Species

Fossil shells of Potamides tricarinatus from Eocene of Italy

Species within the genus Potamides include:

• † Potamides archiaci Halder & Sinha, 2014^[2]
• † Potamides crassituberosus Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902
• † Potamides durranus Iqbal, 1969^[2]
• † Potamides isabenense Dominici & Kowalke, 2014^[3]
• † Potamides lamarckii Brongniart, 1810
• † Potamides matsoni Dall, 1913
• † Potamides migralis
• † Potamides pascoei Cox, 1931^[2]
• † Potamides tricarinatus
• and other extinct taxa

• 
  Potamides disjuncta
• 
  Potamides mixtus
• 
  Potamides tricarinatus
• 
  Potamides tricinctus

Synonyms:

• Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829) is a synonym of extant species Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829)^[4]

Fossil record

Fossils of Potamides are found in marine strata from the Permian to the Quaternary(age range: from 265.0 to 1.806 million years ago.). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Indonesia, Africa, North America, South America, Pakistan, Japan and Cambodia.^[5]