Streptostyla

Streptostyla
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: Streptostylinae
Genus: Streptostyla
Shuttleworth, 1852[1]
Diversity[2]
55 species in Central America + some more in South America

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

Streptostyla is the type genus of the subfamily Streptostylinae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Streptostyla includes Mexico, Central America, Cuba and Venezuela.[2]

Species

There are five[2] subgenera in the genus Streptostyla. Species within the genus Streptostyla include:

Subgenus Streptostyla Shuttleworth, 1852

with oliviform shell

with coniform shell

with turgida shell

with physaeform shell

with aplectiform shell

with subturrite shell

Subgenus Chersomitra Von Martens, 1860 includes six species:[2]

Subgenus Eustreptostyla H. B. Baker, 1927 includes five species:[2]

Subgenus Peteniella Pilsbry, 1907 includes two species:[2]

Subgenus Rectoleacina Pilsbry, 1907[3] from Cuba[2]

synonyms:

References


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