Proserpina is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Proserpinidae.v
Proserpina is the type genus of the family Proserpinidae.
Distribution Distribution of the genus Proserpina include Cuba"Mollusca" . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. and JamaicaRosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. . .
Species Species within the genus Proserpina include:
Proserpina bidentata C. B. Adams, 1850 Proserpina depressa (d’Orbigny, 1842) Proserpina globulosa (d’Orbigny, 1842) Proserpina infortunata Proserpina linguifera (Jonas, 1839) † Proserpina milleri (Fulton, 1915) Proserpina nitida Sowerby II, 1839 Proserpina pisum C. B. Adams, 1850 Proserpina planior Proserpina scudderae Thompson, 1980. Neritopsine Gastropods, accessed 06 March 2014.
References
Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links Newton R. B. (1891). Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons contained in other collections belonging to the Geological Department of the Museum. London, British Museum, XXVIII + 365 pp Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526. note: type species fixation