Rugobela
Genus of gastropods
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Rugobela is a genus of minute gastropod molluscs belonging to the superfamily Conoidea, currently unassigned to a family.[1] The genus is a fossil taxon, known to occur between the Eocene and the Miocene, and has been found in fossil beds in Australia and New Zealand.
| Rugobela Temporal range: | |
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| Rugobela tenuicostata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Genus: | †Rugobela H. J. Finlay, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Ptychatractus tenuiliratus | |
Taxonomy
The genus was first described by Harold Finlay in 1924, naming Ptychatractus tenuiliratus as the type species.[2] The genus was placed in the subfamily Daphnellinae (of the family Turridae) by A. G. Beu in 1990,[3] and in the order Neogastropoda by Jack Sepkoski in posthumous work published in 2002.[4]
Distribution
Species
Species within the genus Rugobela include:[1]
- † Rugobela canaliculata (Suter, 1917)
- † Rugobela columbelloides (Tenison Woods, 1877)
- † Rugobela exsculpta A. W. B. Powell, 1944
- † Rugobela humerosa (Marwick, 1926)
- † Rugobela infelix (Suter, 1917)
- † Rugobela nodulosa A. W. B. Powell, 1942
- † Rugobela semilaevigata Laws, 1935
- † Rugobela sepelibilis (A. W. B. Powell & Bartrum, 1929)
- † Rugobela tenuicostata Laws, 1935
- † Rugobela tenuilirata (Suter, 1917)
- † Rugobela tersa (Marwick, 1931)