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Genus of gastropods

Keepingia
Shell of † Keepingia laevis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Keepingia
Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973
Type species
Buccinum gossardii Nyst, 1836
Synonyms
  • Colwellia Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973
  • Desorinassa Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973

Keepingia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Dorsaninae of the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.

Species

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Keepingia Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851292 on 2021-04-12
  • Nuttall C.P. & Cooper J. (1973). A review of some English Paleogene Nassariidae, formerly referred to Cominella. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 23(3): 179–219.
  • Lozouet, P., 1999. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Partie 2. Cossmanniana 6(1-2): 1-68
  • Lozouet P. & Galindo L.A. (2015). Resolution of the confused classification of some Miocene Nassariidae, and reappraisal of their paleobiodiversity on the French Atlantic seaboard. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 144(1): 31-50

External links

  • Media related to Keepingia at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Keepingia


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