Biology:Azeca

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Azeca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Suborder:	Helicina informal group Orthurethra
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Azecidae
Genus:	Azeca Fleming, 1828
Type species
Turbo tridens Pulteney, 1799
Synonyms
Agraulina (Azeca) J. Fleming, 1828 Azeca (Azeca) J. Fleming, 1828· accepted, alternate representation Azeca (Azecastrum) Bourguignat, 1859 (objective synonym) Cionella (Azeka) J. Fleming, 1828 (misspelling; considered a separate genus)

Azeca is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae.

Species

The only known species in the genus Azeca is:

• Azeca goodalli (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the type genus

Extinct species

• Azeca baudoni Michaud, 1862 †
• Azeca boettgeri Andreae, 1884 †
• Azeca frechi Andreae, 1902 †
• Azeca lemoinei (Cossmann, 1889) †
• Azeca loryi Michaud, 1862 †
• Azeca lubricella O. Boettger, 1870 †
• Azeca miliolum Paladilhe, 1873 †
• Azeca moljavkoi Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978 †
• Azeca monocraspedon Slavík, 1869 †
• Azeca paramonovae Prisyazhnyuk in Luleva & Prisyazhnyuk, 1990 †
• Azeca peneckei Andreae, 1892 †
• Azeca perspicua Brusina, 1902 †
• Azeca pumila Slavík, 1869 †
• Azeca sexdentata Gottschick, 1920 †
• Azeca tridentiformis (Gottschick, 1911) †
• Azeca vitrea Klika, 1891 †

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• AnimalBase info at: [1]
• Black-and-white image of shell at [2]
• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1859). Aménités Malacologiques. § LXVIII. Notice monographique sur le genre Azeca. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. (2) 10 (12) [“1858”: 527–545, pl. 18; (2) 11 (1): 16–21. Paris (≥ January; > January). [= Aménités Malacologiques, Tome second (livr. 5): 85–109, pl. 14 (1859). Paris]

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