Biology:Tortulosa

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Tortulosa
File:Tortulosa huberi (MNHN-IM-2000-34054).jpeg
Shell of Tortulosa tortuosa (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
Genus: Tortulosa
Gray, 1847
Type species
Pupa tortuosa Gray, 1825
Synonyms[1]
  • Cataulus L. Pfeiffer, 1851
  • Perlisia Tomlin, 1948
  • Tortulosa (Eucataulus) Kobelt, 1902
  • Tortulosa (Tortulosa) Gray, 1847

Tortulosa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupinidae.[2][1]

These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.[3]

34 species are recognized.[4][5][6]

Species

  • Tortulosa albescens (Blanford, 1880)
  • Tortulosa aurea (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa austeniana (Benson 1853)
  • Tortulosa barnaclei Tomlin 1928
  • Tortulosa blanfordi (Dohrn, 1862)
  • Tortulosa calcadensis (Blanford, 1869)
  • Tortulosa colletti (Sykes, 1898)
  • Tortulosa congener (Sykes, 1905)
  • Tortulosa connectens (Fulton, 1903)
  • Tortulosa costulata (Blanford, 1880)
  • Tortulosa cumingi (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa decora (Benson, 1853)
  • Tortulosa duplicate (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa eurytrema (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa greeni (Sykes, 1899)
  • Tortulosa haemastoma (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa hartleyi Tomlin 1928
  • Tortulosa layardi (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa leucocheilus (A. Adams & Sowerby, 1866)
  • Tortulosa marginata (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa naggsi Raheem & S. Schneider, 2017 - extinct
  • Tortulosa nevilli (Sykes, 1898)
  • Tortulosa nietneri (Nevill, 1871)
  • Tortulosa presoni (Sykes, 1905)
  • Tortulosa pyramidata (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa recurvata (Pfeiffer, 1862)
  • Tortulosa rugosa (Fulton, 1903)
  • Tortulosa smithi (Sykes, 1905)
  • Tortulosa sykesi (Fulton, 1903)
  • Tortulosa templemani (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa thwaitesi (Pfeiffer 1855)
  • Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825)
Synonyms
  • Tortulosa huberi Thach, 2018: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825) (junior subjective synonym)
  • Tortulosa schileykoi Thach & F. Huber, 2018: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825) (junior subjective synonym)

References

  • Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1948). New Malay land-shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 27: 224–225, 1 plate.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q65078719 entry