Bruggennea

Bruggennea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Enneinae
Genus: Bruggennea
Dance, 1972[1]

Bruggennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

The generic name Bruggennea is in honor of Dutch malacologist Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Bruggennea includes:

Species

Species within the genus Bruggennea include:

References

  1. Dance S. P. (1972). "Bruggennea n.gen., proposed for Recent streptaxids from Borneo (Gastropoda, Streptaxidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 102: 131-132.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. Bruggennea luminifera http://borneanlandsnails.lifedesks.org/pages/992
  4. Bruggennea bongi http://borneanlandsnails.lifedesks.org/pages/921
  5. Bruggennea laidlawi http://borneanlandsnails.lifedesks.org/pages/991


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