Pyrenaearia
| Pyrenaearia | |
|---|---|
| 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: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Pyrenaearia Hesse, 1921[1] |
| Species | |
|
See text | |
Pyrenaearia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the harry snails and their allies.
These snails live in limestone areas in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern Europe.
Species
There are 13 species in the genus Pyrenaearia:[2]
- Pyrenaearia cantabrica (Hidalgo, 1873)
- Pyrenaearia carascalensis (Férussac, 1821) - type species
- Pyrenaearia carascalopsis (Bourguignat in Fagot, 1884)
- Pyrenaearia cotiellae (Fagot, 1906)
- Pyrenaearia daanidentata Raven, 1988
- Pyrenaearia molae Haas, 1924
- Pyrenaearia navasi (Fagot, 1907)
- Pyrenaearia oberthueri (Ancey, 1884)
- Pyrenaearia organiaca (Fagot, 1905)
- Pyrenaearia parva Ortiz de Zárate, 1956
- Pyrenaearia poncebensis Ortiz de Zárate, 1956
- Pyrenaearia schaufussii (Kobelt, 1876)
- Pyrenaearia velascoi (Hidalgo, 1867)
References
- ↑ (German) Hesse P. (1921) "Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 53(1-2): 55-83.
- ↑ Species in genus Pyrenaearia. AnimalBase, accessed 28 November 2009
Further reading
Elejalde M. A., Madeira M. J., Prieto C. E., Backeljau T., Gómez-Moliner B. J. (July 2009) "Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of the Land Snail Genus Pyrenaearia (Gastropoda, Helicoidea)". American Malacological Bulletin 27(1-2): 69-81. doi:10.4003/006.027.0206
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 17, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.