''Hygromia'' 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 ...
s,
terrestrial 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 ...
mollusks in the family
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.Helicellidae Ihering, 1909
Anatomy
Some snails in genera within this family create and ...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hygromia Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=882571 on 2021-03-13]
Species
Species within the genus ''Hygromia'' include:
* † ''
Hygromia carinatissima''
(Sacco, 1886)
* ''
Hygromia cinctella
''Hygromia cinctella'', known commonly as the girdled snail, is a small European species of air-breathing land snail, belonging to the terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk subfamily Hygromiinae of the family Hygromiidae ...
''
Draparnaud, 1801
* ''
Hygromia golasi
''Hygromia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hygromia Risso, 1826. Access ...
''
Prieto & Puente, 1992
* ''
Hygromia limbata''
(Draparnaud, 1805)
* ''
Hygromia montana''
* ''
Hygromia odeca
''Hygromia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hygromia Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
(Bourguignat, 1882)
* ''
Hygromia riopida''
* ''
Hygromia striolata''
* ''
Hygromia tassyi''
(Bourguignat, 1884)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Hygromia folliculata''
Risso, 1826: synonym of ''
Ciliella ciliata''
(W. Hartmann, 1821) (junior synonym)
* ''Hygromia kovacsi''
Varga & Pintér, 1972: synonym of ''
Kovacsia kovacsi''
(Varga & L. Pintér, 1972) (original combination)
* ''Hygromia notophila''
Cockerell, 1924: synonym of ''
Lindholmomneme notophila''
(Cockerell, 1924) (original combination)
* ''Hygromia radleyi''
Jousseaume, 1894: synonym of ''
Landouria radleyi''
(Jousseaume, 1894) (original combination)
* ''Hygromia transsylvanica''
(Westerlund, 1876): synonym of ''
Lozekia transsylvanica''
(Westerlund, 1876)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
*
Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes, vol. 4. Paris: Levrault. vii + 439 pp., pls 1-12.
Gastropod genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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