''Hispaniolana'' is a

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 ...

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 ...

s in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family

Sagdidae Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea. ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hispaniolana Pilsbry, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996702 on 2021-02-05 The name comes from the island of

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by List of C ...

, where all species are

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to.

Species

Species in the genus ''Hispaniolana'' include: * '' Hispaniolana angustata'' (Férussac, 1822) * ''

Hispaniolana audebardi ''Hispaniolana'' is a 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 ...

'' (Reeve, 1854) * ''

Hispaniolana crispatus ''Hispaniolana'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hispaniolana Pilsbry, 1933. Acces ...

'' (Férussac, 1821) * '' Hispaniolana dissita'' (Deshayes, 1850) * '' Hispaniolana dominicensis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1850) * '' Hispaniolana gabbi'' (Pilsbry, 1933) * '' Hispaniolana gigantea'' (Scopoli, 1786) * '' Hispaniolana mcleani'' (Clench, 1962) * ''

Hispaniolana montana ''Hispaniolana'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollu ...

'' (Clench, 1962) * ''

Hispaniolana obliterata ''Hispaniolana'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hispaniolana Pilsbry, 1933. Accessed through: World R ...

'' (Férussac, 1822)

References

* Ferussac A.E.J.P.F. d'Audebard de, 1821 - Deuxième partie: Tableau particuliers des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, tableau de la famille des Limaçons et tableau de la famille des Auricules. In: Tableaux systématiques des animaux mollusques suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles, vivants ou fossiles, p. 111 pp uarto ed* Deshayes G.P., 1839-1851 - Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés par les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles, vol. I, p. 402 pp * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
Sagdidae Fauna of Hispaniola {{Sagdidae-stub