Biology:Aspa (gastropod)
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Aspa | |
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| Fossil shell of Aspa marginata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Bursidae |
| Genus: | Aspa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| † Ranella laevigata Lamarck, 1822 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bursa (Aspa) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (original rank) | |
Aspa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
Description
The ovate shell is ventricose and smooth. The spire is very short. The whorls are nodulous at the angles. [2]
Species
Species within the genus Aspa include:
- Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791)[3]
The genus Aspa is known in the fossil record from the Miocene epoch, about 13.65 million years ago. These fossils have been found in the Quaternary of Namibia and Spain , in the Pliocene of Costa Rica, Greece and Spain and in the Miocene of Austria, Greece, Hungary and Italy.[4]
References
- ↑ Aspa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. WoRMS (2010). Aspa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=463402 on 19 June 2010 .
- ↑ Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
- ↑ Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 June 2010.
- ↑ Fossilworks
External links
- Sanders M.T., Merle D., Laurin M., Bonillo C. & Puillandre N. (2021 [nomenclatural availability: 2020). Raising names from the dead: a time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 156: 107040: 1-12]
Wikidata ☰ Q4807673 entry
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