Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of Caenogastropid sea snails that belongs to the family Pseudomelaniidae.
Taxonomy
Species Many species have been described to belong to this genus. A list of species within the genus Pseudomelania is listed below:"†Pseudomelania Pictet and Campiche 1862 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 11 June 2016.
Subgenus Hudlestoniella Pseudomelania (Hudlestoniella) gubleri Delpey, 1941
Subgenus Oonia Cossmann, 1885 Synonym: Eligmoloxus Pseudomelania (Oonia) incrassata Kittl, 1899 Pseudomelania (Oonia) pennina Parona, 1892 Pseudomelania (Oonia subtortilis Münster, 1841 Pseudomelania (Oonia) texta Kittl, 1899 Pseudomelania (Oonia) grossouvrei Cossmann, 1899 Pseudomelania (Oonia) limneiformis Cossmann, 1885 Pseudomelania (Oonia) similis Münster, 1841
Subgenus Rhabdoconcha Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) spirastriata Wang, 1977 Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) brongniarti Klipstein, 1843 Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) schaeferi Kittl, 1894 Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) triadica Kittl, 1894
Unknown subgenus Pseudomelania aonis Kittl, 1894 Pseudomelania calloviensis (Hébert & Deslongchamps, 1860)Szabó J. & Jaitly A. K. (2004). "Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India VIII. The gastropod fauna. Part II: Discohelicidae, Neritomorpha, Caenogastropoda". Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22: 9–26. PDF. Pseudomelania feruglioi Ferrari, 2012Ferrari S. M. (2012). "New Early Jurassic gastropods from west-central Patagonia, Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica in press. . Pseudomelania frankei Kuhn, 1936 Pseudomelania gaudryi Kittl, 1894 Pseudomelania gracilis Mansuy, 1914 Pseudomelania hagenowi Klipstein, 1843 Pseudomelania inornata Terquem & Piette 1865 Pseudomelania miles Kittl, 1894 Pseudomelania muensteri Wissmann, 1841 Pseudomelania remtsaensis Cox, 1969 Pseudomelania subsimilis Kittl, 1894 Pseudomelania subterebra Kittl, 1894 Pseudomelania sutherlandii (Baily, 1855) Pseudomelania subula Kittl, 1894
References
Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475