''Pseudogonaxis'' 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
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s in the subfamily
Odontartemoninae 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. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pseudogonaxis Thiele, 1932. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996780 on 2022-06-28]
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Pseudogonaxis'' includes:
*
Congo Basin
The Congo Basin () is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known as west equatorial Africa. The Congo Basin region is sometimes known simply as the Congo. It contains some of the larg ...
[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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'' 160: 1-16. .
*
Uganda
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(1 species)
[Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". '']Journal of Molluscan Studies
The ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Malacological Society of London, covering research in malacology. '' 76(1): 87-100. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Pseudogonaxis'' include:
* ''
Pseudogonaxis cavallii''
(Pollonera, 1906)
* ''
Pseudogonaxis kirkii
''Pseudogonaxis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Odontartemoninae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pseudogonaxis Thiele, 193 ...
''
(Dohrn, 1865)
* † ''
Pseudogonaxis legetetensis''
Pickford, 2019
* ''
Pseudogonaxis nseudweensis''
(Putzeys, 1899)
* ''
Pseudogonaxis percivali''
(Preston, 1913)
* † ''
Pseudogonaxis protocavallii''
(Verdcourt, 1963)
* ''
Pseudogonaxis pusillus''
(Martens, 1897)
* ''
Pseudogonaxis rendille''
(Verdcourt, 1963)
* ''
Pseudogonaxis stenostoma''
(Verdcourt, 1965)
;Synonyms:
* † ''Pseudogonaxis protocavalii''
ic synonym of † ''Pseudogonaxis protocavallii''
(Verdcourt, 1963) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
Streptaxidae
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