Tectonatica

Tectonatica Temporal range: Eocene – Present [1]
Tectonatica violacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Naticoidea
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Tectonatica Sacco, 1890 [2]
Type species
Tectonatica tectula Sacco, F., 1890
Species
See text

Tectonatica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. ^[3]

Fossil record

Fossils of Tectonatica are found in marine strata from the Eocene until the Quaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in Europe, North America, South America and Japan.^[1]

Distribution

This mùarine genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia).

Fossils of Tectonatica astensis from Pliocene of Italy

Species

Species within the genus Tectonatica include:

• Tectonatica impervia (Philippi, 1845)
• Tectonatica micra (Haas, 1953)
• Tectonatica pusilla (Say, 1822)
• Tectonatica rizzae (Philippi, 1844)
• Tectonatica robillardi (Sowerby, 1894)
• Tectonatica sagraiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Tectonatica shorehami (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900)
• Tectonatica suffusa (Reeve, 1855)
• Tectonatica tecta (Anton, 1838)
• Tectonatica unicolor (Ma & Zhang, 1993)
• Tectonatica venustula (Philippi, 1851)
• Tectonatica violacea (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
• Tectonatica zonulata (Thiele, 1930)

Species brought into synonymy 

• Tectonatica bougei (Sowerby, 1908): synonym of Tectonatica venustula (Philippi, 1851)
• Tectonatica clausiformis Oyama, 1969: synonym of Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791)
• Tectonatica filosa (Philippi, 1845) : synonym of Tectonatica sagraiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Tectonatica flammulata (Requien, 1848): synonym of Tectonatica sagraiana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Tectonatica janthostomoides Kuroda & Habe, 1949: synonym of Cryptonatica janthostomoides (Kuroda & Habe, 1949)
• Tectonatica operculata (Jeffreys, 1885): synonym of Cryptonatica operculata (Jeffreys, 1885)
• Tectonatica pavimentum (Recluz, 1844): synonym of Tanea pavimentum (Recluz, 1844)

References

1. Paleobiology Database
2. Sacco, F, 1890. Catalogo Paleontologico del Bacino Terziario del Peimonte Bollettino della Società Geologico Italiana 9: 185-330 [312]
3. WoRMS (2011). Tectonatica Sacco, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138245 on 2011-03-18

• Powell A. W. B. (1979), New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Kabat, A.R. (1991) The classification of the Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda): Review and analysis of the supraspecific taxa. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 152, 417-449.
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

External links

• Huelsken, T. et al. (2008) The Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Isola del Giglio (Tuscany, Italy): Shell characters, live animals, and a molecular analysis of egg masses. Zootaxa, 1770:1-40.