Biology:Xeroleuca

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Xeroleuca
Helix mograbina (MNHN-IM-2000-33300).jpeg
Shell of Xeroleuca mograbina (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Geomitridae
Subfamily: Helicellinae
Genus: Xeroleuca
Kobelt, 1877
Type species
Helix turcica Holten, 1802
Synonyms
  • Helix (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877
  • Xerophila (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877 (superseded generic combination)

Xeroleuca is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the typical snails.[1]

It contains the following species:

  • Xeroleuca degenerans (Mousson, 1873)
  • Xeroleuca mogadorensis (Bourguignat, 1863)
  • Xeroleuca mograbina (Morelet, 1852)
  • Xeroleuca privatiana (Pallary, 1918)
  • Xeroleuca renati (Dautzenberg, 1894)
  • Xeroleuca turcica (Holten, 1802)
Taxa inquirenda
  • Xeroleuca babelis Pallary, 1920 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca brulardi Pallary, 1913 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca chabertiana Pallary, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca rebiana Pallary, 1913

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xeroleuca Kobelt, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996341 on 2021-02-14
  • Morelet, A., 1852. Testa nova Algeriensa. Coquilles nouvelles d'Algérie. Journal de Conchyliologie 3: 61-64
  • Kobelt, W. (1877). Zusätze und Berichtigungen zu meinem Catalog der im europäischen Faunengebiete lebenden Binnenconchylien. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 4: 14–45.
  • Pallary, P. (1929). Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie. Mémoires présentés a l'Institut d'Égypte, 12: 1-43, pl. 1–3. Le Caire.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q104585987 entry