''Hystricella'' 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

Geomitrinae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. Anatomy The family is characterized by the presence of a free right ommatophoral retr ...

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. 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 ''Hystricella echinulata'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Hystricella echinulata (R. T. Lowe ...

'' (R. T. Lowe, 1831) * † '' Hystricella microcarinata'' De Mattia & Groh, 2018 ;Synonyms: * ''Hystricella leacockiana'' (Wollaston, 1878): synonym of ''

Wollastonaria leacockiana ''Wollastonaria'' is a genus of gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family Geomitridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Wollastonaria De Mattia, Neiber & Groh, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: ...

'' (Wollaston, 1878) (superseded generic combination) * ''Hystricella oxytropis'' (R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of ''

Wollastonaria oxytropis ''Wollastonaria oxytropis'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Wollastonaria oxytropis (R. T. Lo ...

'' (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: 161-208

De 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
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