Schileykula

Schileykula
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: Schileykula
Gittenberger, 1983[1]

Schileykula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. All of the species and subspecies in this genus inhabit Turkey, with the exception of the subspecies Schileykula scyphus crass (Pilsbry, 1922), which lives in Iran.

Species belonging to the genera Schileykula and Orculella are indistinguishable based on shell characters only. They differ however in the genitalia, primarily in the presence (Orculella) or absence (Schileykula) of a penial appendix.[2] In Sch. batumensis and Sch. trapezensis the reproductive isolation is incomplete.[3]

Species and subspecies

Species and subspecies belonging to Schileykula[2][4] include:

References

  1. Gittenberger E. (1983). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea. IX. Nochmals über Orculidae.". Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (C) 86(3): 325-342.
  2. 1 2 Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)"]. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 125 (1/2): 1-86.
  3. Neubert, Eike (1993). "Contribution to the knowledge of the Orculinae from Northeastern Turkey (Mollusca: Stylommatophora: Orculidae).". Zoology in the Middle East 8: 53–67. doi:10.1080/09397140.1993.10637637.
  4. Páll-Gergely, Barna (2010). "Description of the genital structure of four Turkish orculids (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orculidae)". Journal of Conchology 40 (4): 471–476.
  5. Gittenberger, E.; Menkhorst, H.P.M.G. (1993). "Schileykula aculeata spec, nov., a conspicuous species from Turkey with spiny ribs on its shell (Mollusca: Gastropoda Pulmonata: Orculidae". Zoologische Mededelingen 67: 341–343.
  6. Páll-Gergely, Barna (2010). "New and little-known land snails from Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zoology in the Middle East 50: 89–94. doi:10.1080/09397140.2010.10638416.


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