Brasilennea
Extinct genus of gastropods
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Brasilennea is a fossil genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, in Rio de Janeiro.[3] The most characteristic feature of the genus is its two spiral furrows on the body whorl.[3]
| Brasilennea | |
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| Brasilennea arethusae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | †Brasilennea Maury, 1935[2] |
| Type species | |
| †B. arethusae Maury 1935[2] | |
| Species | |
| Diversity[3] | |
| 3 extinct species | |
The generic name Brasilennea originally intended to imply that it is a Brazilian genus that is very similar and related to the African genus Ennea.[2] This is no longer the case, however: while the genus was originally classified in the family Streptaxidae,[2] Brasilennea was then later transferred to the family Cerionidae.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Brasilennea include:
- †Brasilennea arethusae Maury, 1935[2] - type species of genus
- †Brasilennea guttula Salvador & Simone, 2012[4]
- †Brasilennea minor Trindade, 1956[5]
