''Papustyla'' 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
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
Hadrinae of the family
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a Family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families i ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Papustyla Pilsbry, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995932 on 2021-12-05]
Species
This genus contains the following species:
[Abbott, R. Tucker. 1989. Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists. p. 149.]
* ''
Papustyla chancei''
(Cox, 1870) Chance's ''Papustyla''.
* ''
Papustyla chapmani''
(Cox 1870), Chapman's ''Papustyla''.
* ''
Papustyla fergusoni'' ''(H. Adams, 1872)'' Ferguson's ''Papustyla''.
* ''
Papustyla hindei''
(Cox, 1886)
* ''
Papustyla lilium''
(Fulton, 1905) Lily-white ''Papustyla''.
* ''
Papustyla novaepommeraniae''
(I. Rensch & B. Rensch, 1929) New Pommeran ''Papustyla''.
* ''
Papustyla pulcherrima''
(I. Rensch, 1931) Emerald green snail.
* ''
Papustyla xanthochila''
(Pfeiffer, 1861) Golden mouth ''Papustyla''.
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Papustyla horderi''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1890): synonym of ''Papuina antiqua horderi''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1890)(superseded combination)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Iredale, T. (1941). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Papua. The Australian Zoologist. 10(1): 51-94, pls. 3-4Clench, W. J.; Turner, R. D. (1963 ["1962"]). Monographs of the Genera Papustyla, Forcartia and Meliobba (Papuininae: Camaenidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 1(6): 3-33
Camaenidae
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