Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Alternative spelling: Loxonema (Allostrophia)
Full reference: E. Kittl. 1894. Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlischen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 9:143-277
Parent taxon: Zygopleura according to O. Haas 1953
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Kittl 1894 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Zygopleura (Xizangospira), Zygopleura angulata, Zygopleura arctecostata, Zygopleura benoisti, Zygopleura brevis, Zygopleura cylindrica, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura elongata, Zygopleura etalensis, Zygopleura geniculata, Zygopleura goldbergi, Zygopleura granietzensis, Zygopleura haasi, Zygopleura hybrida, Zygopleura nitida, Zygopleura numidis, Zygopleura porulosa, Zygopleura roessleri, Zygopleura simplex, Zygopleura spiralina, Zygopleura swalloviana, Zygopleura tenuis, Zygopleura tunisiensis, Zygopleura verrucosa, Zygopleura walmstedti, Zygopleura yunnanensis
Subtaxa: none
Type: Melania perversa
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Cerro de Pasco area, loc. 19 (Triassic of Peru)