Pseudiberus

Pseudiberus
Pseudiberus chentingensis shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Bradybaenidae
Genus: Pseudiberus
Ancey, 1887[1]
Synonyms[2]

Platypetasus Pilsbry, 1894[3]

Pseudiberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.

Taxonomy

Two subgenera Pseudiberus and Platypetasus were synonymized in the study published in 2006 by Min Wu and Gang Qi, because their genital characters and their distribution range largely overlap.[2]

Distribution

These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.

Species list

Species in the genus Pseudiberus:

Ecology

They live under old stones and in forests. They eat plants.

References

  1. 1 2 Ancey C. F. (1887). "Description of new genera or subgenera of Helicidae". The Conchologists’ Exchange 1(12): 75-76. page 76.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Wu M. & Qi G. (2006). "A taxonomic note on Pseudiberus Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae)". Folia Malacologica 14(1): 25–30. doi:10.12657/folmal.014.003 PDF.
  3. Pilsbry H. A. (1894). Manual of Conchology, In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1894). "Helicidae – Volume VII." (2)9: page 207. Plate 55, fig. 8-9.

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