Parmacellilla filipowitschi
| Parmacellilla filipowitschi | |
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| Drawing of Parmacellilla filipowitschi from the type description. Head in on the right. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
| Family: | Trigonochlamydidae |
| Subfamily: | Parmacellillinae Hesse, 1926[1] |
| Genus: | Parmacellilla Simroth, 1910[2] |
| Species: | P. filipowitschi |
| Binomial name | |
| Parmacellilla filipowitschi Simroth, 1910[2] | |
Parmacellilla filipowitschi is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.
Parmacellilla filipowitschi is the only species in the genus Parmacellilla, which in turn is the only genus in the subfamily Parmacellillinae.
The generic name Parmacellilla is based on its similarity to the genus Parmacella.[2] The specific name filipowitschi is in honor of E. M. Filipowitsch, who collected the type specimen in 1905.[2]
Distribution
The type locality is Gorgan (also known as Astrabad) in Iran.[2]
References
- ↑
(German) Hesse P. (1926). "Die Nacktschnecken der palearktischen Region". Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde 2(1): 1-152. page 47 and page 54. plates 1-2. - 1 2 3 4 5 (German) Simroth H. (1910). "Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublungenschnecken". Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) 15: 499-560. page 536-547. Table VIII, figure 38-50.
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