Pilorcula

Pilorcula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Orculidae
Genus: Pilorcula
Germain, L., 1912[1]

Pilorcula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The species and subspecies in this genus inhabit the Caucasus and Turkey to Palestine.[2][3]

Species and subspecies

Species and subspecies within the genus Pilorcula include:[3]

References

  1. Germain, L. (1912). "Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l'Asie Antérieure. 5e note. Catalogue des gastéropodes de la Syrie et de la Paléstine.". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 18(7): 440-452.
  2. animalbase.org. "animalbase.org". Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. 1 2 Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)"]. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 125 (1/2): 1-86.


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