Trochoidea (genus)
This article is about a genus of air-breathing land snails. For the eponymous superfamily of sea snails, see Trochoidea (superfamily).
| Trochoidea | |
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| Five views of a shell of Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805) | |
| 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: | Trochoidea Brown, 1827[1] |
Trochoidea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae. The name means "those that are shaped like a top".
(The same name, Trochoidea is currently also used for a superfamily of sea snails with gills, a superfamily that includes the top shells, Trochidae, and the turban shells, Turbinidae.)
Species
Species within the genus Trochoidea include:[2][3]
- Trochoidea carinatoglobosa (Haas, 1934)
- Trochoidea caroni (Deshayes, 1830)
- Trochoidea cucullus (Martens, 1873)
- Trochoidea cumiae (Calcara, 1847)
- Trochoidea elegans (Gmelin, 1791)
- Trochoidea liebetruti (Albers, 1852)
- Trochoidea picardi
- Trochoidea pseudojacosta
- Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)
- Trochoidea spratti (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Trochoidea simulata
- Trochoidea tarentina (Pfeiffer, 1848)
- Trochoidea trochoides (Poiret, 1789)
The following species have been brought into synonymy:
- Trochoidea betulonensis is a synonym for Xerocrassa montserratensis ssp. betulonensis
- Trochoidea claudinae is a synonym for Xerocrassa claudinae
- Trochoidea geyeri is a synonym for Xerocrassa geyeri (Soós, 1926)
- Trochoidea gharlapsi is a synonym for Xerocrassa gharlapsi
- Trochoidea jimenensis is a synonym for Xerocrassa jimenensis
- Trochoidea molinae is a synonym for Xerocrassa molinae
- Trochoidea montserratensis is a synonym for Xerocrassa montserratensis
- Trochoidea seetzenii is a synonym for Xerocrassa seetzeni
- Trochoidea zaharensis is a synonym for Xerocrassa zaharensis
References
- ↑ Brown T. 1827. Illustrations of conchology of Great Britain and Ireland drawn from nature. pp. 1-65, Pl. 1-52. Edinburgh. (Lizars).
- ↑ "Taxon Details: Trochoidea T. Brown 1827 (subgenus Trochoidea)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ↑ Welter Schultes, F. "Species in genus Trochoidea". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
Further reading
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