''Edentulina'' is a
genus of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.
Stre ...
.
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Distribution
Distribution of the genus ''Edentulina'' include:
* East Africa
**
Tanzania
*
Comores
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the Seychelles
Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ...
[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '' Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 160: 1-16. .]
Species
Species within the genus ''Edentulina'' include:
* ''
Edentulina affinis''
Boettger, 1913
* ''
Edentulina ambongoaboae'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina ambra'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina analamerae'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina ankaranae'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina anodon'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Edentulina antankarana'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina arenicola''
(Morelet, 1860)
* ''
Edentulina battistinii'' Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1975
* ''
Edentulina bemarahae'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina crosseana'' (Morelet, 1881)
* ''
Edentulina dussumieri''
(Dufo, 1840) - subspecies: ''Edentulina dussumieri dussumieri'' (Dufo, 1840); ''Edentulina dussumieri reservae'' Gerlach & Bruggen, 1999; ''Edentulina dussumieri silhouettae'' Gerlach & Bruggen, 1999; ''Edentulina dussumieri praslina'' Gerlach & Bruggen, 1999.
The subspecies ''praslina'' is only known as
subfossil
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.
* ''
Edentulina florensi'' Emberton, 1999
* ''
Edentulina insignis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
* ''
Edentulina johnstoni''
(E. A. Smith, 1887)
* ''
Edentulina langiana'' Pilsbry, 1919
* ''
Edentulina liberiana'' (I. Lea, 1840)
* ''
Edentulina martensi'' (E. A. Smith, 1882)
* ''
Edentulina minor'' (Morelet, 1851)
* ''
Edentulina moreleti''
(Adams, 1868)[Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". '' Zoologische Verhandelingen'' 328: 1-60. page 47]
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* ''
Edentulina nitens'' (Dautzenberg, 1895)
* ''
Edentulina obesa''
(Taylor, 1877)
* ''
Edentulina oleacea'' (Fulton, 1903)
* ''
Edentulina ovoidea''
(Bruguière, 1789) (taxon inquirendum)
* ''
Edentulina parensis''
Verdcourt, 2004
* ''
Edentulina rugosa'' Emberton, 1999
* † ''
Edentulina rusingensis'' Verdcourt, 1963
* ''
Edentulina uluguruensis'' Bequaert & Clench, 1936
* ''
Edentulina usambarensis''
Bequaert & Clench
;Taxa inquerenda:
* ''
Edentulina grandidieri''
Bourguignat, 1890
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Edentulina affinis''
C. R. Boettger, 1913: synonym of ''Edentulina ovoidea''
(Bruguière, 1789) (junior synonym)
* ''Edentulina montis''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1975: synonym of ''
Edentulina minor''
(Morelet, 1851)
References
* Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
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Streptaxidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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