Campanile (gastropod)
Genus of gastropods
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Campanile is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Campanilidae.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Campanilidae |
| Genus: | Campanile Bayle in Fischer, 1884[1] |
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Biology
All species in this genus have become extinct, except Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 from southwestern Australia. They used to flourish in the Tethys Sea and underwent a widespread adaptive radiation in the Cenozoic.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Campanile include:
- † Campanile auvertianum
- † Campanile brookmani Cox 1930
- † Campanile claytonense
- † Campanile cornucopiae
- † Campanile dilloni
- † Campanile elongatum
- † Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) - a gigantic fossil species from the Eocene
- † Campanile gigas Martin 1881
- † Campanile greenellum
- † Campanile hebertianum
- † Campanile houbricki[3]
- † Campanile parisiense
- † Campanile paratum
- Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 - a living Australian species. This is the only extant species of Campanilidae.[4]
- † Campanile tchihatcheffi d’Archiac 1850
- † Campanile trevorjacksoni Portell & Donovan, 2008 - a fossil species from the Eocene[5][6]
- † Campanile uniplicatum (d'Orbigny, 1850)
- † Campanile villaltai
