Leucotina

Leucotina
Shell of Leucotina knopi (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Amathinidae
Genus:	Leucotina A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Leucotina niphonensis A. Adams, 1860
Synonyms
Actaeon (Leucotina) A. Adams, 1860 Adelactaeon Cossmann, 1895 Leucotina (Adelactaeon) Cossmann, 1895 Myonia A. Adams, 1860 (Invalid: junior homonym of Myonia Dana, 1847 [Bivalvia]; Adelactaeon is a replacement name)

Leucotina is a genus of small sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Amathinidae.^[1]

Species[]

• Kuroda & Habe, 1971
• Saurin, 1962
• Leucotina casta (A. Adams, 1853)
• (A. Adams, 1854)
• (van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998)
• G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
• Thiele, 1925
• A. Adams, 1860
• † Laws, 1939
• Melvill, 1898
• Hedley, 1900
• A. Adams, 1860
• (A. Adams, 1860)
• Melvill, 1897
• Leucotina knopi Poppe & Tagaro, 2010
• (van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998)
• Leucotina micra (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
• E. A. Smith, 1910
• † (Hutton, 1885)
• Thiele, 1925
• † (Suter, 1917)
• A. Adams, 1860
• (E. A. Smith, 1872)
• Saurin, 1959
• (A. Adams, 1853)
• A. Adams, 1860

Species brought into synonymy

• Leucotina ambigua (Hutton, 1885): synonym of Leucotina casta (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina amoena (A. Adams, 1853): synonym of (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina digitalis (Dall & Bartsch, 1906): synonym of (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina esther Angas, 1867: synonym of Leucotina casta (A. Adams, 1853)
• Leucotina formosa W. H. Turton, 1932: synonym of Leucotina elongata G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
• Leucotina niphonensis A. Adams, 1860: synonym of Leucotina dianae (A. Adams, 1854)
• Leucotina sagamiensis Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of (Kuroda & Habe, 1971) (original combination)
• Leucotina sundaica Thiele, 1925: synonym of Leucotina speciosa (A. Adams, 1853)

References[]

• Hori, S. & Tsuchida, E. (1995). A revision of the systematic position of genus Leucotina Gastropoda: Heterostropha). Venus. 54: 279-293

External links[]

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• Adams, A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5: 299-303
• Cossmann, M. (1895). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Première livraison. Paris, The author and Comptoir Géologique. 159 pp., 7 pls.
• Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265.

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