original description
(of Collonia (Pseudonina) Sacco, 1896 †) Sacco, F. (1896). <i>I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXI. (Naricidae, Modulidae, Phasianellidae, Turbinidae, Trochidae, Delphinulidae, Cyclostrematidae, Tornidae)</i>. Carlo Clausen, Torino, 64 pp., 4 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46681
page(s): 9 [details]
basis of record
Bertolaso L. & Palazzi S. (1994). La posizione sistematica di <i>Delphinula bellardii</i> Michelotti, 1847 (Appunti di malacologia neogenica: 2). <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> 29(9-12): 291-302. [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The genus Pseudonina, with its Miocene–Pliocene type species Pseudonina
bellardii (Michelotti, 1847) reported from sunken wood in Italy (Bertolaso &
Palazzi 1994), has been included in the family Provannidae by Bouchet et al. (2005, 2017), According to Kaim (2022), the protoconch of this species is more similar to protoconchs of epitoniids as already observed by Bertolaso & Palazzi (1994). [details]