Potamides (gastropod)
Genus of gastropods
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Potamides is a genus of prehistoric sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | †Potamides Brongniart, 1810[1] |
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Species
Species within the genus Potamides include:
- † Potamides archiaci Halder & Sinha, 2014[2]
- † Potamides crassituberosus Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902
- † Potamides durranus Iqbal, 1969[2]
- † Potamides isabenense Dominici & Kowalke, 2014[3]
- † Potamides lamarckii Brongniart, 1810
- † Potamides matsoni Dall, 1913
- † Potamides migralis
- † Potamides mosaliensis Banerjee & Halder, 2024
- † Potamides pascoei Cox, 1931[2]
- † Potamides shahensis Banerjee & Halder, 2024
- † Potamides tricarinatus
- and other extinct taxa
Potamides disjuncta
Potamides mixtus
Potamides tricarinatus
Potamides tricinctus
Synonyms:
- Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829) is a synonym of extant species Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829)[4]
Fossil record
Fossils of Potamides are found in marine strata from the Permian to the Quaternary(age range: from 265.0 to 1.806 million years ago.). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Indonesia, Africa, North America, South America, Pakistan, Japan and Cambodia.[5]
