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Remarks: Established as a suborder containing
the families Hedylopsidae and Pseudune-
lidae.
PRORHIPIDOGLOSSASimrOth, 1906
Reference: Dr H.G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen
des Tier-Reichs, Bd. 3, Abt. 2, Buch
1:838,1052
Remarks: Taxon containing the family Bellerophontidae
only.
Prosobranchia Milne-Edwards, 1846 [2 September]
Reference: Société Philomatique de Paris, Extrait
des Procès-Verbaux des Séances,
(1846): 116
Remarks: Original spelling (vernacular)
"Prosobranches". Also published in Milne-
Edwards (1846b: 296). Often credited to a
later paper by Milne-Edwards (1848: 109,
112). Established as one of four orders (with
Pulmonata, Heteropoda, and Opisthobranchia)
of the class Gastropoda; no contents
given. See also Eugastropoda.
Prosophthalma H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856
[March]
Reference: The genera of Recent Mollusca,
2:313
Remarks: Established as a suborder contain-
ing the family Assimineidae only.
PROTEOBRANCHIATADall, 1870
Reference: The American Naturalist, 4: 561
Remarks: Original spelling Proteo-branchi-
ata. Established as a suborder of the order
Docoglossa containing the families
Acmaeidae and Patellidae. Dall (1871 :
49,
51) expanded his views on the classification
of the Docoglossa and included only
the family Acmaeidae in the Proteobran-
chiata.
Protocochlides Ihering, 1876
Reference: Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen
Gesellschaft, 3: 144
Remarks: Established as an order of the class
Ichnopoda, containing the families Rhodopidae,
Tethyidae, and Melibidae. See also
Tergibranchiata.
Protogastropoda Shimer & Shrock, 1 944
Reference: Index fossils of North America:
366, 437
Remarks: Established as a subclass of the
class Gastropoda, containing the orders Cynostraca
and Cochliostraca.
Protopoda Gray, 1857 [9 May]
Reference: Guide to the systematic distribu-
tion of Mollusca in the British Museum, Part
7:64,126
Remarks: Division of the suborder Rosthfera
containing the family Vermetidae only.
Protostreptoneura
Remarks: Wenz (1938: 62) stated that B. B.
Woodward had proposed Protostreptoneura
as a basal group of ancestral gastropods
containing Subulites, Stenotheca, and
Platyceras. We have not found this name in
Woodward's work, and Wenz himself rejected
this concept of Protostreptoneura.
Protriaula Ihering, 1892
Reference: Nova Acta, Kaiserlich Leopoldinish-Carolinische
Deutsche Akademie der
Naturforscher, 58(5): 399
Remarks: Established at the rank of order, as
a substitute name for Triaula.
Proturethra Ihering, 1929
Reference: Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde,
2{2): 156, 194
Remarks: Division of Nephropneusta, contain-
ing the families Onchidiidae, Vaginulidae,
Rathouisiidae, Janellidae, and Philomycidae.
PsELAPHocEPHALA Koferstoin, 1862
Reference: DrH. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen
derWeichthiere, Bd. 3(2): 522, 567
Remarks: Established at the rank of class as
a substitute name for Gastropoda.
PsEUDOBRANCHiA Gray, 1856 [13 August]
Reference: Proceedings of the Zoological
Society of London, 24: 101
Remarks: Established as a suborder of the
order Scutibranchia, containing the family
Proserpinidaeonly.
PsEUDOBRANCHiATA Hartmann, 1840
Reference: Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden:
(unnumbered table)
Remarks: Division of the Gastropoda containing
the genera Choristoma, Pomatias, and
Cyclostoma.
PsEUDOEucTENiDiACEA Tardy, 1970
Reference: Annales des Sciences naturelles,
Zoologie et Biologie animale, ser. 12, 12(3): 365
Remarks: Established as a superfamily (see
family list). Ranked by Baranetz & Minichev
(1995: 298) as an order in the synonymy of
Doridoxida.