Sturanyella

Sturanyella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Sturanyella
Pilsbry & Cooke, 1934[1]

Sturanyella is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Helicinidae, the helicinids.

The specific name Sturanyella is apparently in honor of Rudolf Sturany (1867-1935), a malacologist from Austria.

Species

Species within the genus Sturanyella include:

References

  1. 1 2 Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. (1934). "Notes on the nomenclature of Hawaiian Helicinidae". The Nautilus 48(2): 53-54.


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