Kelletia
| Kelletia Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Recent,
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Kelletia is a genus of large sea snails, whelks, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Description
One extant species Kelletia lischkei occurs in the Sea of Japan off the coasts of Japan and South Korea, and another K. kelletii is found of along the coasts of California, USA and in the Baja California, Mexico.[2] Fossil species are documented in Japan,[3] California,[4][5][6][7][8] and Ecuador.[9] A molecular phylogeny of Buccinidae based on the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene suggested that Kelletia is a sister clade to Penion, a whelk genus with extant species distributed in waters off of New Zealand and Australia.[2]
Species
- † Kelletia brevis (Ozaki, 1954)[3]
- † Kelletia ecuadoriana (Olsson, 1964)[9]
- † Kelletia kanakoffi (Hertlein, 1970)[4]
- Kelletia kelletii (Forbes, 1850)[2]
- † Kelletia kettlemanensis (Arnold, 1910)[5]
- Kelletia lischkei (Kuroda, T., 1938)[2]
- † Kelletia lorata (Addicott, 1970)[6]
- † Kelletia posoensis (Anderson & Martin, 1914)[7]
- † Kelletia rugosa (Olsson, 1964)[9]
- † Kelletia vladimiri (Kanakoff, 1954)[8]
External links
- World Register of Marine Species: Kelletia Bayle in P. Fischer, 1884
- Fossilworks Database Kelletia Fischer 1884 (true whelk)
References
- ^ Bayle in: Fischer P. (1884). Man. Conch., 625.
- ^ a b c d Hayashi, S. 2005. The molecular phylogeny of the Buccinidae (Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda) as inferred from the complete mitochondrial 16s rRNA gene sequences of selected representatives. Molluscan Research, 25: 85–98.
- ^ a b Ozaki, H., 1954. On the palaeontology of the basal conglommerate of Pliocene Tyoshi City, Kanto Region. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 34, 9 - 21.
- ^ a b Hertlein, L.G. 1970. A new species of fossil Kelletia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Lomita Marl, Late Cenozoic of San Pedro, California. Contributions in Science 190, 1 - 8.
- ^ a b Arnold, R. 1910. Paleontology of the Coalinga District, Fresno and Kings counties, California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 396
- ^ a b Addicott, W.O. 1970. Miocene gastropods and biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California. Geological Survey Professional Paper 642. United States Printing Office, Washington
- ^ a b Anderson, F.M., Martin, B. 1914. Neocene Record in the Temblor Basin, California, and Neocene deposits of San Juan distinct, San Luis Obispo County. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4, 15 - 122.
- ^ a b Kanakoff, G.P.. 1954. A new Kelletia from the Pliocene of California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 52, 114 - 117.
- ^ a b c Olsson, A.A., 1964. Neogene mollusks from northwestern Ecuador. Palaeontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York, USA, 256.
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