Pruvotinidae is a diverse taxonomic family of cavibelonian solenogasters, shell-less, worm-like marine mollusks.
Genera Subfamily Eleutheromeniinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978 Eleutheromenia Salvini-Plawen, 1967 Gephyroherpia Salvini-Plawen, 1978 Luitfriedia Garcia-Álvarez & Urgorri, 2001 Subfamily Halomeniinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978 Halomenia Heath, 1911 Subfamily Lophomeniinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978 Forcepimenia Salvini-Plawen, 1969 Hypomenia van Lummel, 1930 Lophomenia Heath, 1911 Metamenia Thiele, 1913 Subfamily Pruvotininae Heath, 1911 Labidoherpia Salvini-Plawen, 1978 Pararrhopalia Simroth, 1893 Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903 Subfamily Scheltemaia incertae sedis Scheltemaia Salvini-Plawen, 2003 Subfamily Unciherpiinae Garcia-Álvarez, Salvini-Plawen & Urgorri, 2001 Sialoherpia Salvini-Plawen, 1978 Unciherpia Garcia-Álvarez, Salvini-Plawen & Urgorri, 2001 Uncimenia Nierstrasz, 1903 Synonyms Subfamily Pararrhopaliinae Salvini-Plawen, 1978: synonym of Pruvotininae Heath, 1911 Paramenia Pruvot, 1890: synonym of Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903 (invalid: junior homonym of Paramenia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 [Diptera]; Pruvotina and Perimenia are replacement names ) Perimenia Nierstrasz, 1908: synonym of Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903
References
Simroth, H. (1893). Aplacophora. In: Bronn, H. G.: Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. 3 (1): 128–233, pl. 1–4. Nierstrasz, H. 1908. The Solenogastres of Discovery-Expedition. Nation. Antarctic Exped. 1901–1904, Natur. Hist., 4:38-46. Heath H. (1911). Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, from August 1899 to June 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser. XVI. The Solenogastress. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 45: 1-182 pl. 1-40 Salvini-Plawen, L.v. 1972. Zur Morphologie und Phylogenie der Mollusken: Die Beziehungen der Caudofoveata und der Solenogaster. Z. wiss. Zool., 184(3/4): 205-394 García-Álvarez O., Salvini-Plawen L.v., Urgorri V. & Troncoso J.S. (2014). Mollusca. Solenogastres, Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora. Fauna Iberica. 38: 1-294
External links Salvini-Plawen, L.v. 2008. Contributions to West European Cavibelonia (Mollusca, Solenogastres)with two new species. Zoosystema, 30(4):873-897