Biology:Vestia (gastropod)

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Vestia
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.383175 - Vestia (Vestia) gulo (Bielz, 1859) - Clausiliidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.383175 - Vestia (Vestia) gulo (Bielz, 1859) - Clausiliidae - Mollusc shell.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Clausiliinae
Tribe: Baleini
Genus: Vestia
Hesse, 1916 [1]
Synonyms
  • Uncinaria Vest, 1867 nec Frölich, 1789

Vestia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Paul Hesse named Vestia as a nomen novum for Uncinaria Vest, 1867, which was preoccupied by its senior homonym Uncinaria Frölich, 1789, a genus of nematode.[1]

Species

Species:[2]

References

  1. Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 48 (3): 124. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35628968. 
  2. "Vestia P.Hesse, 1916" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/3243944. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15290282 entry