Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alternative spellings: Melania (Rissoa), Pissoa, Rissoia
Synonyms: Apanthausa Gistl 1848, Lilacinia Nordsieck 1972, Rissoa (Turboella) Leach in Gray 1847, Turbella Leach in Gray 1847, Turboella Leach in Gray 1847
Parent taxon: Rissoidae according to Z. Kovács and G. Stein 2023
See also Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2015, Harzhauser 2002, Lozouet 1998, Marquet 1997, Martin 1904, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Palmer 1923, 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, Manzonia, Merelina, Microstelma, Mohrensterniinae, Obtusella, Ottoina, Ovirissoa, Powellisetia, Pusillina, Rissocerithium, Rissoinae, Setia, Simulamerelina, Striatestea, Thierachella, Tournoueria, Voorwindia, Zebinostoma
Subtaxa: Rissoa (Turbella) Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata Rissoa (Turboella) obsoleta Rissoa alienocurta Rissoa canariensis Rissoa cooperi Rissoa costulata Rissoa dolium Rissoa epulata Rissoa federicoi Rissoa kelseyi Rissoa multicostata Rissoa pakistanica Rissoa parva Rissoa poustagnacensis Rissoa reticulata Rissoa similis Rissoa ventricosa Turbella cowlitzensis Turbella elegans Turboella costata Turboella crebricostata Turboella turbinata
Type: Rissoa ventricosa
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (2 collections), Greece (1), Greenland (1), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), Portugal (14), South Africa (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (7)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Italy (4), Mexico (4), the United Kingdom (2), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (3), Austria (3), France (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Poland (2), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Belgium (4), Denmark (2), France (38)
• Eocene of France (2), Pakistan (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (14: Alabama, California, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Greenland (1), Poland (1), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Germany (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (25: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Poland (1)
• Triassic of Italy (3)
Total: 182 collections including 217 occurrences
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