Pseudosubulina

Pseudosubulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Testacelloidea
Family: Spiraxidae
Subfamily: Spiraxinae
Genus: Pseudosubulina
Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882

Pseudosubulina is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.[1]

The genus name refers to the fact that the shell of these snails loosely resemble that of the genus Subulina.

References

  1. Thompson, F. G. (2010). "Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae)". Revista de biologia tropical 58 (1): 195–202. PMID 20411717., PDF.


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