''Gittenedouardia'' 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
Cerastidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995152 on 2020-12-31]
Species
Species within the genus ''Gittenedouardia'' include:
* ''
Gittenedouardia alycaeoides''
(Verdcourt, 1957)
* ''
Gittenedouardia arenicola''
(Benson, 1856)
* ''
Gittenedouardia athiensis''
(Connolly, 1925)
* ''
Gittenedouardia burnayi''
(Dohrn, 1866)
* ''
Gittenedouardia caffra''
(F. Krauss in L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
* ''
Gittenedouardia carinifera''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1897)
* ''
Gittenedouardia cockerelli''
(Pilsbry, 1933)
* ''
Gittenedouardia conulina
''Gittenedouardia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008. Accessed through: W ...
''
(E. von Martens, 1869)
* ''
Gittenedouardia conulus''
(L. Reeve, 1849)
* ''
Gittenedouardia dimera''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901)
* ''
Gittenedouardia drakensbergensis
''Gittenedouardia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
(E.A. Smith, 1877)
* ''
Gittenedouardia eminula
''Gittenedouardia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
(Morelet, 1848)
* ''
Gittenedouardia hanningtoni''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1890)
* ''
Gittenedouardia herbigrada''
(Pilsbry, 1919)
* ''
Gittenedouardia junodi''
(Connolly, 1922)
* ''
Gittenedouardia kaokoensis''
(Connolly, 1929)
* ''
Gittenedouardia lourdeli''
(Bourguignat, 1889)
* ''
Gittenedouardia maritzburgensis''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)
* ''
Gittenedouardia mcbeaniana''
(Burnup, 1905)
* ''
Gittenedouardia meridionalis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
* ''
Gittenedouardia metula''
(E. von Martens, 1895) (synonym: ''Edouardia metula''
(E. von Martens, 1895))
* ''
Gittenedouardia metuloides''
(E.A. Smith, 1899)
* ''
Gittenedouardia nakuroensis''
(Dautzenberg, 1908)
* ''
Gittenedouardia natalensis''
(F. Krauss in L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
* ''
Gittenedouardia orbus''
(W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861)
* ''
Gittenedouardia prestoni''
(Connolly, 1925)
* ''
Gittenedouardia randalanai''
(Griffiths & Herbert, 2013)
* ''
Gittenedouardia rufonigra''
(L. Reeve, 1849)
* ''
Gittenedouardia sordidula''
(E. von Martens, 1897)
* ''
Gittenedouardia spadicea''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
* ''
Gittenedouardia subeminula''
(Bourguignat, 1883)
* ''
Gittenedouardia transvaalensis''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893)
* ''
Gittenedouardia tumida''
(J.S. Gibbons in J.W. Taylor, 1877)
* ''
Gittenedouardia turricula''
(Preston, 1911)
* ''
Gittenedouardia vesconis''
(Morelet, 1860)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Bank, R. A. & Menkhorst, H. P. M. G. (2008). Notes on the nomenclature of some land- and freshwater molluscs of the Seychelles, with consequences for taxa from Africa, Madagascar, India, the Philippines, Jamaica, and Europe. Basteria. 72(4/6): 93-110
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Cerastidae