''Macularia'' 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, a pulmonate
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 ...
in the subfamily Helicinae of the family
Helicidae
Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails." It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropoge ...
, the typical snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macularia Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996443 on 2021-06-03]
Species
* ''
Macularia niciensis''
(A. Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Macularia saintivesi''
(Kobelt, 1906)
* ''
Macularia sylvatica
'' Macularia sylvatica'' is a medium-sized species of air-breathing dextral land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. It was once seen as a close relative of the grove snail (''Cepaea nemoralis''), but does i ...
''
(Draparnaud, 1801)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Macularia riffensis''
Kobelt, 1903: synonym of ''
Hatumia riffensis''
(Kobelt, 1903) (original combination)
* ''Macularia saintyvesi''
(Kobelt, 1906): synonym of ''Macularia saintivesi''
(Kobelt, 1906)
* ''Macularia vittata''
(O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of ''
Pseudotrachia vittata''
(O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded combination)
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* Pfeffer, G. (1930). Zur Kenntnis tertiärer Landschnecken. Geologisch-Paläontologische Abhandlungen, neue Folge. 17(3): 153–380.
* 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
Helicidae
Gastropod genera
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