''Primigulella'' is a

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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 ...

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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 ...

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s in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family

Streptaxidae Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic. Six Streptaxi ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883861 on 2022-02-07

Species

* '' Primigulella augur'' (van Bruggen, 1988) * '' Primigulella foliifera'' (E. von Martens, 1895) * '' Primigulella franzi'' (Blume, 1965) * ''

Primigulella grossa ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (E. von Martens, 1892) * ''

Primigulella jombeneensis ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pu ...

'' (Preston, 1913) * † ''

Primigulella koruensis ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' Pickford, 2019 * ''

Primigulella linguifera ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (E. von Martens, 1895) * ''

Primigulella lobidens ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (Thiele, 1911) * ''

Primigulella microtaenia ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1933) * † ''

Primigulella miocenica ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. ...

'' (Verdcourt, 1963) * ''

Primigulella ndamanyiluensis ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (Venmans, 1956) * ''

Primigulella ndiwenyiensis ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (Rowson & Lange, 2007) * ''

Primigulella pilula ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant ...

'' (Preston, 1911) * ''

Primigulella usagarica ''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Primigulellinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: ...

'' (Crosse, 1886) * '' Primigulella usambarica'' (Craven, 1880)

References

* Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 40: 1–370, pls I-XXIII. * Rowson B. & Herbert D.G. (2016). The type species and circumscription of the species-rich Afrotropical snail genus Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856, based on anatomical and mtDNA data (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Streptaxidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 145(1): 69–84.

External links

Blume, W. (1965). Die Mollusken, die Herr Prof. Franz hauptsächlich während seiner letzten Reise in Innerafrika gesammelt hat. Opuscula zoologica. 90: 1-17

Rowson, B. (2010). Systematics and diversity of the Streptaxidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, Cardiff. Pp. i–vii + 1–307.
Streptaxidae Gastropod genera {{Streptaxidae-stub