Potamides archiaci
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| Potamides archiaci Temporal range: | |
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| Abapertural view of holotype Potamides archiaci. Scale bar is 10 mm. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | †Potamides |
| Species: | †P. archiaci |
| Binomial name | |
| †Potamides archiaci Halder & Sinha, 2014[1] | |
Potamides archiaci is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Potamididae.
The specific name archiaci is in honour of French paleontologist Adolphe d'Archiac, who was one of the pioneering researchers to describe molluscs from the Indian subcontinent.[1] Type specimen are deposited in the Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata.[1]
