Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alternative spellings: Melania (Rissoa), Pissoa, Rissoia
Synonyms: Apanthausa Gistl 1848, Lilacinia Nordsieck 1972
Parent taxon: Rissoidae according to P. Lozouet 1998
See also Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2015, Marquet 1997, Martin 1904, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Perrilliat 1972, Poppe and Goto 1991, Sepkoski 2002, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Weisbord 1962
Sister taxa: Actonia, Alvania, Ampulospira luda, Benthonella, Boreocingula, Buvignieria, Folinia, Hudlestoniella, Lapsigyrus, Merelina, Microstelma, Mohrensterniinae, Ottoina, Ovirissoa, Powellisetia, Pusillina, Rissocerithium, Rissoina, Rissoinae, Rissoininae, Setia, Simulamerelina, Stosicia, Striatestea, Thierachella, Tournoueria, Turboella, Voorwindia, Zebina, Zebinostoma
Subtaxa: Rissoa (Turbella) Rissoa alienocurta Rissoa canariensis Rissoa cooperi Rissoa costulata Rissoa dolium Rissoa epulata Rissoa intersecta Rissoa multicostata Rissoa pakistanica Rissoa parva Rissoa poustagnacensis Rissoa reticulata Rissoa similis Rissoa ventricosa
Type: Rissoa semistriata
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (2 collections), Greenland (1), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), Portugal (14), South Africa (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (5)
• Pliocene of Italy (4), Mexico (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), France (1), Iran (1), Poland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Denmark (3), France (2)
• Eocene of France (1), Pakistan (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (2: Texas)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Spain (1), United States (11: Georgia)
• Jurassic of Poland (1)
• Triassic of Italy (3)
Total: 94 collections including 116 occurrences
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