Pilorcula

Pilorcula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Orculidae
Genus: Pilorcula
Germain, L., 1912[1]

Pilorcula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The species and subspecies in this genus inhabit the Caucasus and Turkey to Palestine.[2][3]

Species and subspecies

Species and subspecies within the genus Pilorcula include:[3]

  • Pilorcula aspinosa Hausdorf, 1996
  • Pilorcula pusilla Hausdorf, 1996
  • Pilorcula raymondi (Bourguignat, 1863) -type species
  • Pilorcula trifilaris (Mousson, 1856)
  • Pilorcula trifilaris anatolica Hausdorf, 1996
  • Pilorcula trifilaris longior Hausdorf, 1996
  • Pilorcula trifilaris quadrifilaris (Rosen, 1905)
  • Pilorcula trifilaris trifilaris (Mousson, 1856)

References

  1. ↑ Germain, L. (1912). "Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l'Asie Antérieure. 5e note. Catalogue des gastéropodes de la Syrie et de la Paléstine.". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 18(7): 440-452.
  2. ↑ animalbase.org. "animalbase.org". Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. 1 2 Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)"]. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 125 (1/2): 1-86.


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