Leiostyla

Leiostyla
Two views of three shells of Leiostyla anglica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Lauriidae
Genus: Leiostyla
R. T. Lowe, 1852[1]

Leiostyla is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lauriidae.[2][3]

The genus Leiostyla was previously placed in the subfamily Lauriinae, within the family Pupillidae.

Species

Species in the genus Leiostyla include:

References

  1. Lowe R. T. 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9 (50): 112-120, 275-279. London.
  2. Cucherat X. & Demuynck S. Mai 2006. Catalogue annoté des Gastéropodes terrestres (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de la région Nord - Pas-de-Calais. MalaCo, Bulletin de la Malacologie Continentale Française, (2): page 48. http://www.journal-malaco.fr/page-5.html
  3. Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. 2001 Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.


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