''Paralaoma'' is a
genus
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of very small 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 or
micromollusk
A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...
s in the subfamily
Laominae of the family
Punctidae
Punctidae, common name the "dot snails" or "pinhead snails", is a family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra (acco ...
, the dot snails.
Species
The genus ''Paralaoma'' includes the following species:
* ''
Paralaoma ahena''
Iredale, 1945
* ''
Paralaoma allochroida''
(Suter, 1890)
* ''
Paralaoma ambigua''
Iredale, 1913
* ''
Paralaoma angusta''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Paralaoma annabelli
''Paralaoma'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Laominae of the family Punctidae, the dot snails.
Species
The genus ''Paralaoma'' ...
''
Shea & Griffiths, 2010
* ''
Paralaoma buddlei''
Powell, 1951
* ''
Paralaoma burringtoni''
(Pilsbry, 1930)
* ''
Paralaoma coloba''
(Pilsbry, 1894)
* ''
Paralaoma compar''
Iredale, 1944
* ''
Paralaoma depressior''
Preston, 1913
* ''
Paralaoma gelida''
Iredale, 1941
* ''
Paralaoma goweri''
Iredale, 1944
* ''
Paralaoma hottentota''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1891)
* ''
Paralaoma innesi''
Iredale, 1944
* ''
Paralaoma insularis''
(Cotton, 1939)
* ''
Paralaoma lateumbilicata''
(Suter, 1890)
* ''
Paralaoma manawatawhia''
Goulstone & Brook, 1999
* ''
Paralaoma mazatlanica''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Paralaoma miserabilis''
(Iredale, 1913)
* ''
Paralaoma morti''
(Cox, 1864)
* ''
Paralaoma pagoda''
Climo, 1973
* ''
Paralaoma perminuta''
Preston, 1913
* ''
Paralaoma pilsbryi''
(Hylton Scott, 1957)
* ''
Paralaoma raki''
Goulstone & Brook, 1999
* ''
Paralaoma raricostata''
(Suter, 1890)
* ''
Paralaoma regia''
Powell, 1948
* ''
Paralaoma retinoides''
(Tate, 1894)
* ''
Paralaoma sarawakensis''
Marzuki, T. S. Liew & Mohd-Azlan, 2021
* † ''
Paralaoma senex''
B. A. Marshall & Worthy, 2017
* ''
Paralaoma sericata''
(Suter, 1890)
* ''
Paralaoma serratocostata''
(Webster, 1906)
* ''
Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852)
* ''
Paralaoma textilis''
(Pilsbry, 1920)
* † ''
Paralaoma thomsoni''
(Suter, 1917)
* ''
Paralaoma turbotti''
Powell, 1948
;Synonyms:
* ''Paralaoma abjecta''
Iredale, 1944: synonym of ''
Semilaoma abjecta''
(Iredale, 1944) (original combination)
* ''Paralaoma angustum''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015: synonym of ''Paralaoma angusta''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015 (incorrect gender ending)
* ''Paralaoma caputspinulae''
(Reeve, 1852): synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
* ''Paralaoma decresensis''
Iredale, 1937: synonym of ''Paralaoma caputspinulae''
(Reeve, 1852): synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
* ''Paralaoma duncombei''
Iredale, 1945: synonym of ''Paralaoma caputspinulae''
(Reeve, 1852): synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
* ''Paralaoma lidgbirdensis''
Iredale, 1944: synonym of ''
Semilaoma lidgbirdensis
''Semilaoma lidgbirdensis'', also known as the Mount Lidgbird pinhead snail, is a tiny species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.
Description
The depressedly turbinate shell of the mature snail is ...
''
(Iredale, 1944) (original combination)
* ''Paralaoma orestias''
Preston, 1913: synonym of ''
Christianoconcha orestias''
(Preston, 1913) (original combination)
* ''Paralaoma pumila''
(Hutton, 1882): synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852)
* ''Paralaoma raoulensis''
Iredale, 1913: synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
* ''Paralaoma royi''
Iredale, 1944: synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
* ''Paralaoma stabilis''
Iredale, 1937: synonym of ''Paralaoma caputspinulae''
(Reeve, 1852): synonym of ''Paralaoma servilis''
(Shuttleworth, 1852) (junior synonym)
References
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AnimalBase
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page for this genus at
External links
*
Iredale, T. (1913). The land Mollusca of the Kermadec islands. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10(6): 364-388, pl. 18
Paralaoma,
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by Tom Iredale
Gastropods described in 1913
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