''Apula'' is an extinct
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
, a
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
in the subfamily Klikiinae † of the family
Elonidae
Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * † At: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933856 on 2021-02-12]
Species
* † ''
Apula amberti''
(Michaud, 1855)
* † ''
Apula catantostoma''
(F. Sandberger, 1872)
* † ''
Apula coarctata''
(Klein, 1853)
* † ''
Apula devexa''
(Reuss, 1861)
* † ''
Apula escoffierae''
(Fontannes, 1881)
* † ''
Apula fraudulosa''
(Steklov, 1966)
* † ''
Apula goniostoma''
(Sandberger, 1872)
* † ''
Apula koehnei''
(Schlickum & Strauch, 1972)
* † ''
Apula magna''
(Lueger, 1981)
* † ''
Apula planispira''
(Lueger, 1981)
* † ''
Apula steinheimensis''
(Jooss, 1918)
* † ''
Apula vindobonensis''
(Harzhauser & H. Binder, 2004)
References
* Schlickum, W.R.; Strauch, F. (1972). Zwei neue Landschneckengattungen aus dem Neogen Europas. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 102: 71–76.
External links
Boettger, C.R. (1909). Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der europäischen Heliciden. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 41(1): 1-19
Elonidae
{{paleo-gastropod-stub