Bembexia seminuda Whidborne 1892 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria seminuda

Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 45:251-335

Belongs to Bembexia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Kirchner 1915 and Whidborne 1892

Sister taxa: Bembexia adjutor, Bembexia babini, Bembexia chapernowni, Bembexia crenatostriata, Bembexia disjuncta, Bembexia gradilispira, Bembexia headillus, Bembexia insolita, Bembexia inumbilicata, Bembexia laevis, Bembexia larteti, Bembexia micula, Bembexia minima, Bembexia neapolitana, Bembexia tricinctus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Wolborough Quarry, on the east side of the A381 due east of Wolborough church, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Torquay Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Wolborough Quarry, on the east side of the A381 due east of Wolborough church

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