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Aliculastrum

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Description

Aliculastrum is a genus of small sea snails or bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Haminoeidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliculastrum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7762100	https://www.gbif.org/species/7762100
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11902	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11902

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cephalaspidea : Haminoeidae : Aliculastrum

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
order	Opisthobranchia
order	Cephalaspidea	Fischer 1883
superfamily	Haminoeoidea	Pilsbry 1895
family	Haminoeidae	Pilsbry 1895
subfamily	Atydinae	Thiele 1925
genus	Aliculastrum	Pilsbry 1896

Scientific Name

Aliculastrum Pilsbry, 1896

Name Published In

in Tryon & Pilsbry, Man. Conch., 16

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aliculastrum	subgenus	belongs to Atys	stated without evidence	Woodring, 1928
Aliculastrum	subgenus	belongs to Atys	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1948
Aliculastrum	genus	belongs to Atyidae	implied	Rippingale and McMichael, 1961
Aliculastrum	subgenus	belongs to Atys	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Aliculastrum	genus	belongs to Cephalaspida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Aliculastrum	genus	belongs to Atydinae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (40%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Haminoeidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Haminoeidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliculastrum

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aliculastrum cylindricum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Aliculastrum debile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aliculastrum parallelum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aliculastrum protocylindrica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Aliculastrum secalinum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aliculastrum solidum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aliculastrum volvulina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Atys (Aliculastrum) dalli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Atys (Aliculastrum) morantensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Atys dalli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Atys morantensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Atys protocylindrica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Aticula Annandale & Prashad, 1924	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cephalaspidea : Haminoeidae : *Aticula*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1896	Aliculastrum Pilsbry
1928	Atys (Aliculastrum) Woodring p. 127
1948	Atys (Aliculastrum) Gardner p. 278
1953	Atys (Aliculastrum) Olsson and Harbison p. 163
1960	Atys (Aliculastrum) MacNeil p. 127
1961	Aliculastrum Rippingale and McMichael p. 152
2001	Atys (Aliculastrum) Todd
2002	Aliculastrum Sepkoski, Jr.
2009	Aliculastrum Harzhauser et al. p. 365

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

Olsson A. A., Harbison A. (1953) Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph 8, 1-457

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Rippingale O. H., McMichael D. F. (1961) , Queensland and Great Barrier Reef Shells

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Harzhauser M., Euter M., et al (2009) Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83, 333-372

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Tryon & Pilsbry, Man. Conch., 16 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Oskars T.R., Too C.C., Rees D., Mikkelsen P.M., Willassen E. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the gastropod family Haminoeidae sensu lato (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): a generic revision. Invertebrate Systematics. 33: 426-472. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Too, C. C.; Carlson, C.; Hoff, P. J.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2014). Diversity and systematics of Haminoeidae gastropods (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in the tropical West Pacific Ocean: new data on the genera Aliculastrum, Atys, Diniatys and Liloa. Zootaxa. 3794 (3): 355–392. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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