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Protoma

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Protoma

| image = Turritellidae - Protoma cathedralis.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Protoma cathedralis

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|28.4|0|Oligocene - Recent}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha

| superfamilia = Cerithioidea

| familia = Turritellidae

| subfamilia = Protominae

| genus = Protoma

| genus_authority = Baird, 1870{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}}

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms =

  • Protoma (Protomella)
  • Protomella Thiele, 1929

}}

Protoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.{{WRMS species|225198|Protoma Baird, 1870||17 May 2010}}

Species

Extant species within the genus Protoma include:

  • Protoma knockeri Baird, 1870{{WRMS species|446502|Protoma knockeri Baird, 1870||17 May 2010}}

; Species brought into synonymy:

Extinct species

  • † Protoma cathedralis Brongniart 1856
  • † Protoma deshayesi d'Archiac 1850
  • † Protoma renevieri d'Archiac and Haime 1854
  • † Protoma retrodilatatum Vredenburg 1928
  • † Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832
  • † Protoma sindiense Vredenburg 1928
  • † Protoma subrenevieri Vredenburg 1928

Fossils of sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, South Africa, India, and Pakistan from Oligocene to Quaternary (age range: 28.4 to 0.012 million years ago).[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10329 Fossilworks]

References

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  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp.
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg]

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Protoma

Category:Monotypic gastropod genera

Category:Extant Oligocene first appearances

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