Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Brotia

Photos

Photo Gallery

Brotia sp.

Swanscombe and Greenhithe, Dartford, Kent, England, UK

Brotia sp.

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Brotia sp.

Swanscombe and Greenhithe, Dartford, Kent, England, UK

Brotia sp.

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Brotia sp.

Swanscombe and Greenhithe, Dartford, Kent, England, UK

Brotia sp.

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Description

Brotia is a genus of Southeast Asian freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family Pachychilidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4617180	https://www.gbif.org/species/4617180
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	104654	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=104654

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pachychilidae : Brotia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Thiaridae : Brotia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
order	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Thiaridae	Troschel 1857
subfamily	Thiarinae	Morrison 1954
genus	Brotia	H.Adams 1866

Scientific Name

Brotia H.Adams, 1866

Name Published In

Adams, H. (1866). Description of a new genus and a new species of mollusks. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1866: 150.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Brotia	genus	belongs to Thiaridae	stated without evidence	Oostingh, 1935
Brotia	genus	belongs to Thiarinae	stated with evidence	Pacaud and Le Renard, 1995
Brotia	genus	belongs to Thiaridae	implied	Kiessling, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 58.7 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

freshwater (based on Thiaridae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cerithioidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Cerithioidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Kiessling. 2003. Personal data.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Brotia (Tinnyea) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		11	59.2 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Brotia alpina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia annamita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia armata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia binodosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia bittneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia castellaunensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia citrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia clavaeformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia costula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia dautzenbergiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia episcopalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia hanleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia henriettae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia herculea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia hoabinhensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia indragirica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia insolita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia iravadica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia jullieni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia kelantanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia laodelectata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia lhazeensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia lombersensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia majevitzae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia manningi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia mariae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia microsculpta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia oppenoorthi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Brotia pagodula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia palaeocostula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia paludiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia peninsularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia praetermissa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia prasongi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia pseudoasperata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia pseudosulcospira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia siamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia solemiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia spinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia squamosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia subgloriosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia sumatrensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia testudaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia torquata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia verbecki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia wykoffi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brotia yunnanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Antimelania P.Fischer & Crosse, 1892	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pachychilidae : *Antimelania*
Protia Prashad, 1921	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pachychilidae : *Protia*
Wanga S.-F.Chen, 1943	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pachychilidae : *Wanga*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1866	Brotia Adams
1935	Brotia Oostingh p. 27
1995	Brotia Pacaud and Le Renard p. 156
2003	Brotia Kiessling

References

Kiessling W. (2003) Personal data

Oostingh C. H. (1935) Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java), Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 26, 1-247

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Adams, H. (1866). Description of a new genus and a new species of mollusks. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1866: 150. - via World Register of Marine Species

Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2001) Toward a systematic revision of the southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia H. Adams, 1866 (Cerithioidea: Pachychylidae): An account of species from around the South China Sea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 67: 281-318. - via World Register of Marine Species

Köhler, F.; Dames, C. (2009). Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland South-East Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157, 679–699. - via World Register of Marine Species

CAAB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

wikipedia, Sept 2010 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Obsolete Names Synonymy List References

Go to top of page