''Hystricella'' is a
genus
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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
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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
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s in the subfamily
Geomitrinae of the family
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea
Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
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MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998825 on 2022-07-21]
Species
Species within the genus ''Hystricella'' include:
* † ''
Hystricella aucta''
(Wollaston, 1878)
* ''
Hystricella bicarinata''
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)
* † ''
Hystricella echinoderma''
(Wollaston, 1878)
* ''
Hystricella echinulata''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831)
* † ''
Hystricella microcarinata''
De Mattia & Groh, 2018
;Synonyms:
* ''Hystricella leacockiana''
(Wollaston, 1878): synonym of ''
Wollastonaria leacockiana''
(Wollaston, 1878) (superseded generic combination)
* ''Hystricella oxytropis''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831):
synonym of ''
Wollastonaria oxytropis''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831) (superseded generic combination)
* ''Hystricella turricula''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of ''
Wollastonaria turricula''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831) (superseded generic combination)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Lowe, R. T. (1855 ("1854")). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208De Mattia, W., Neiber, M. T. & Groh, K. (2018). Revision of the genus-group Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855 from Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago), with descriptions of new recent and fossil taxa (Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Geomitridae). ZooKeys. 732: 1-125
Geomitridae
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