Edentulina
| Edentulina | |
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| apertural view of a shell of Edentulina moreleti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Subfamily: | Orthogibbinae |
| Genus: | Edentulina L. Pfeiffer, 1856[1] |
Edentulina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Edentulina include:
Species
Species within the genus Edentulina include:
- Edentulina dussumieri (Dufo, 1840)[4] - subspecies: Edentulina dussumieri dussumieri (Dufo, 1840); Edentulina dussumieri reservae Gerlach & Bruggen, 1999; Edentulina dussumieri silhouettae Gerlach & Bruggen, 1999; Edentulina dussumieri praslina Gerlach & Bruggen, 1999.[4] The subspecies praslina is only known as subfossil.[4]
- Edentulina moreleti (Adams, 1868)[4]
- Edentulina usambarensis Bequaert & Clench[3]
References
- ↑ Pfeiffer L. (1856). Malak. Bl. 2: 173.
- 1 2 3 4 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
- 1 2 Tattersfield P. (1996). Edentulina usambarensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
- 1 2 3 4 Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". Zoologische Verhandelingen 328: 1-60. page 47. abstract, PDF.
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