Corilla

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

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Plectopyloidea
Family: Corillidae
Pilsbry, 1905[1]
Genus: Corilla
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[2]

Corilla is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.[3]

Corilla is the only genus in the family Corillidae (cf. Schileyko (1999).[4] This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Species

Species in the genus Corilla include:

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1905). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6(5): 289.
  2. Adams H. & Adams A. (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 208.
  3. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
  4. Schileyko A. A. (1999) "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocylcidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2(4): 437-564, Moscow.


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