Kelletia

Kelletia
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Recent, 25.2–0.0 Ma
A live Kelletia kelletii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Kelletia
Bayle in P. Fischer, 1884[1]
Type species
Fusus kelletii Forbes, 1850
Species

See text.

Kelletia is a genus of large sea snails, whelks, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[2]

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, United States and in the Baja California, Mexico.[3][4] Fossil species are documented in Japan,[5][6] California,[7][8][9][10][11] and Ecuador.[12] 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.[3]

Species

References

  1. ↑ Bayle in: Fischer P. (1884). Man. Conch., 625.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Fraussen, K. (2015). Kelletia Bayle in P. Fischer, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=490535 on 2016-07-07
  3. 1 2 3 4 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.
  4. ↑ Hwang, H., Kang, J., Cho, I., Kang, D., Paek, W.K., Lee, S.H. 2014. Benthic invertebrate fauna in the islets of Namuseom and Bukhyeongjeseom off Busan. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 7: e206 – e212.
  5. 1 2 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.
  6. ↑ Ogasawara, K. 2002. Cenozoic Gastropoda. In: Ikeya, N., Hirano, H., Ogasawara, K. eds. The database of Japanese fossil type specimens described during the 20th Century (Part 2). Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Paper 40. University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
  7. 1 2 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.
  8. 1 2 Arnold, R. 1910. Paleontology of the Coalinga District, Fresno and Kings counties, California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 396
  9. 1 2 Addicott, W.O. 1970. Miocene gastropods and biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California. Geological Survey Professional Paper 642. United States Printing Office, Washington
  10. 1 2 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.
  11. 1 2 Kanakoff, G.P.. 1954. A new Kelletia from the Pliocene of California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 52, 114 - 117.
  12. 1 2 3 Olsson, A.A., 1964. Neogene mollusks from northwestern Ecuador. Palaeontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York, USA, 256.
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