Protoma

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Kingdom Animalia Family Turritellidae Scientific name Protoma Higher classification Protominae		Superfamily Cerithioidea Subfamily Protominae Phylum Mollusca Rank Genus

Similar Zeacolpus, Maoricolpus, Mesalia

Protoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.

Species

Extant species within the genus Protoma include:

Protoma knockeri Baird, 1870

Species brought into synonymy

Protoma capensis (Krauss, 1848): synonym of Turritella capensis (Krauss, 1848)

† Protoma cathedralis Brongniart 1856

† Protoma deshayesi d'Archiac 1850

† Protoma renevieri d'Archiac and Haime 1854

† Protoma retrodilatatum Vredenburg 1928

† Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832

† Protoma sindiense Vredenburg 1928

† Protoma subrenevieri Vredenburg 1928

Fossils of sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, South Africa, India, and Pakistan from Oligocene to Quaternary (age range: 28.4 to 0.012 million years ago).

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