Pittieria
| Pittieria | |
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| Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Pittieria aurantiaca | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Testacelloidea |
| Family: | Spiraxidae |
| Subfamily: | Euglandininae |
| Genus: | Pittieria von Martens, 1901[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 14 species | |
Pittieria is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Pittieria extends from Central Mexico to northern Panama.[2]
Species
Species in the genus Pittieria include:
Subgenus Pittieria Von Martens, 1901 include two[2] species:
Subgenus Laeviglandina Pilsbry, 1908 include nine[2] species:
- Pittieria aurantiaca (Angas, 1879)[2]
- Pittieria broctontomlini (Pilsbry, 1926)[2]
- Pittieria chiriquiensis (Da Costa, 1900)[2]
- Pittieria decidua (Pfeiffer, 1861)[2]
- Pittieria izabellina (Pfeiffer, 1846)[2]
- Pittieria lanceolata (Von Martens, 1891)[2]
- Pittieria obtusa (Pfeiffer, 1844)[2]
- Pittieria tryoniana Pilsbry, 1908[2]
- Pittieria underwoodi (Fulton, 1897)[2]
Subgenus Shuttleworthia H. B. Baker, 1941 include three[2] species:
- Pittieria ambigua (Pfeiffer, 1856)[2]
- Pittieria arborea H. B. Baker, 1941[2]
- Pittieria difficilis (Crosse and Fischer, 1869)[2]
References
- ↑ Martens E. v. (1901). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Mollusca. 601-706. British Museum (Natural History). page 617.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA". "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)". accessed 14 January 2011.
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