Perrottetia (gastropod)

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Perrottetia

Perrottetia aquilonaria
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:	Streptaxinae
Genus:	Perrottetia Kobelt, 1905^[1]

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

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Perrottetia includes:

south India^[2]
South-East Asia^[2]
Mascarenes^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Perrottetia include:^[3]

Perrottetia aquilonaria
Perrottetia dermapyrrhosa
Perrottetia gudei
Perrottetia phuphamanensis

References

↑ Kobelt W. (1905). In: Martini & Chemnitz Conch.-Cab. 1(12B): 91, 108.
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.
↑ Siriboon, T.; Sutcharit, C.; Naggs, F.; Panha, S. (2013). "Three new species of the carnivorous snail genus Perrottetia Kobelt, 1905 from Thailand (Pulmonata, Streptaxidae)". ZooKeys 287: 41. doi:10.3897/zookeys.287.4572.

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