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Curvella ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4598211	https://www.gbif.org/species/4598211
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	380459	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=380459

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Achatinidae : Curvella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Subulinidae : Curvella

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Pulmonata	Cuvier 1817
-	Eupulmonata
-	Stylommatophora
-	Sigmurethra	Pilsbry 1900
superfamily	Achatinoidea	Swainson 1840
family	Subulinidae	Fischer and Crosse 1877
genus	Curvella	Chaper 1885

Scientific Name

Curvella Chaper, 1885

Name Published In

Chaper M. (1885). Description de quelques espèces et genres nouveaux de coquilles vivantes de diverses provenances. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 10: 42-54.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Curvella	genus	belongs to Subulinidae	stated without evidence	Peters, 1990

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

0.13 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Last Recorded Appearance

0.13 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Subulinidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Pulmonata)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Pulmonata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Peters. 1990. Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence. Revue de Paléobiologie 9(1):73-112

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Curvella acutiuscula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella aethiopica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella afra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella amicitiae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella arthurii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella associata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella babaulti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella batesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella bathyraphe species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella bathytoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella blacklocki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella boettgeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella caloglypta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella calorhaphe species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella campyla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella catarractae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella chapini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella cheptumoae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella conoidea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella costellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella croslyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella dautzenbergi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella decurtata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella deliciosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella disparilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella elevata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella elgonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella entebbensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella euglypta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella eussoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella fallooni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella farquahari species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella farquhari species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella floresiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella fulgens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella hadrotes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella inornata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella insculpta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella jiamana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella jousseaumei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella kretschmeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella langi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella langrannana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella majubana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella majubina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella masakana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella mbararaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella minuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella modesta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella mymecophila species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella myrmecophila species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella nyasana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella orani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella ovata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella pangumana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella percivali species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella perforata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella pertranslucens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella poutiersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella procampyla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella pusilla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella puta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella quadrasi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella quisqualis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella saundersae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella scalaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella shimbiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella sinulabris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella sinuosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella solidula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella straminea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella subgradata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella subleptinaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella subvirescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella succinacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella succinea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella sulcata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella suturalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella thysvillensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella timorlautensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella tonkiniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella transvaalensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella umbilicata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella usambarensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella usambarica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella vohimena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella whytei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Curvella woodhousei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hapalus travankoricus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Hapalus Albers, 1850	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Achatinidae : *Hapalus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Curvella Chaper
1990	Curvella Peters

References

Peters J. (1990) Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence, Revue de Paléobiologie 9 1, 73-112

GBIF/Academy of Natural Sciences: MAL - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 10 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXIII. - via World Register of Marine Species

Chaper M. (1885). Description de quelques espèces et genres nouveaux de coquilles vivantes de diverses provenances. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 10: 42-54. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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