Zonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Zonariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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| Fossil shell of Zonarina aturensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | †Zonarina Sacco, 1894 |
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| †Cypraea annulus var. pinguis Grateloup, 1846 | |
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Type species
editWhen Sacco established Zonarina, he included the single species Cypraea pinguis, with two varieties, longovulina and spiratina, both Sacco, 1894, and Dolin & Lozouet [2004, Cossmanniana, hors ser. 4: 39] have cited Cypraea pinguis longovulina Sacco, 1894, as the type species by OD. However, under Art. 68.3, C. pinguis is the type species by monotypy ("regardless of any cited subspecies").
Fossil record
editFossils are found in marine strata from the Oligocene to the Miocene (age range: from 23.03 to 5.332 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy and France.
Species
edit- †Zonarina abbreviata (Dolin & Lozouet, 2004)
- †Zonarina aturensis Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
- †Zonarina estotiensis (Dolin & Lozouet, 2004)
- †Zonarina maynotensis Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
- †Zonarina parasigmapertura (Dolin & Lozouet, 2004)
- †Zonarina pinguis (Grateloup, 1846)
- †Zonarina subelongata (d'Orbigny, 1852)
References
edit- ^ a b "Zonarina". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- Dolin L. & Lozouet P. (2004). Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur de l'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 3. Cypraeidae et Ovulidae. Cossmanniana. Hors-série 4: 1–164.
- Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
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