Tamayoa

Tamayoa
A live individual of Tamayoa decolorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Scolodontidae
Subfamily: Tamayoinae
Genus: Tamayoa
H. B. Baker, 1925[1]

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

Tamayoa is the type genus of the subfamily Tamayoinae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Tamayoa include:

References

  1. ↑ Baker H. B. (1925). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan-Williamson expedition in Venezuela, III. Pupillidae to Oleacinidae". Occasional Papers Museum of Zoology, University Michigan 156: 1-57, figs 58-61, pls. 1-11. page 15.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. 1 2 3 Schileyko A. A. (2000). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. Part 6. Rhytidae, Chlamydephoridae, Systrophiidae, Haplotrematidae, Streptaxidae, Spiraxidae, Oleacinidae, Testacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2: 731-880, figs 950-1154. page 758-759.
  4. ↑ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
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