Gyliotrachela

Gyliotrachela
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Genus: Gyliotrachela
Tomlin, 1930[1]

Gyliotrachela is a genus of land snails in the family Pupillidae. They are known commonly as trumpetsnails.[2] Some species have the aperture of the shell on a trumpet-shaped extension.[3]

Species include:[4]

References

  1. Tomlin J. R. le B. (1930). Proc. malac. Soc. London 19: 24.
  2. Gyliotrachela. Atlas of Living Australia.
  3. Solem, A. (1981). Small land snails from Northern Australia, I: Species of Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930 (Mollusca: Pulmonata, Vertiginidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5(1-2) 87-100.
  4. Liggia, B. Gyliotrachela. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base.
  5. Hoekstra, P. and M. Schilthuizen. (2011), Phylogenetic relationships between isolated populations of the limestone-dwelling microsnail Gyliotrachela hungerfordiana (Gastropoda: Vertiginidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49(4) 266–72.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Panha, S., et al. (2004). New pupillid species from Thailand (Pulmonata: Pupillidae). The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 4(2) 57-82.


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