Scutalus
| Scutalus | |
|---|---|
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| A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Subfamily: | Peltellinae[1] |
| Genus: | Scutalus Albers, 1850[2] |
Scutalus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.[1]
Previously this genus was placed within the subfamily Bulimulinae.[3]
Shells of Scutalus sp. on a Moche pot, 200 AD. Larco Museum Collection, Lima, Peru.
Species
Species in the genus Scutalus include:
subgenus Scutalus Albers, 1850
- Scutalus chiletensis Weyrauch, 1967[1]
- Scutalus cretaceus (Pfeiffer, 1855)[4] - images
- Scutalus ortizpuentei Weyrauch, 1967[4]
- Scutalus phaeocheilus (Haas, 1955)[4]
- Scutalus proteiformis (Dohrn, 1863)[4]
- Scutalus mariopenai Breure & Mogollón Avilla, 2010[4]
subgenus Vermiculatus Breure, 1978[5]
- Scutalus macedoi Weyrauch, 1967[4]
subgenus ?
References
- 1 2 3 Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
- ↑ Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers: 1-262. Berlin. page 160.
- ↑ Breure A. S. H. (1979). "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 168: 1-215, figs 1-182, pls. 1-3, tables 1-5. PDF.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
- ↑ Breure A. S. H. (1978). "Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 164: 1-255. page 166.
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