''Petasina'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of air-breathing land snails,

terrestrial animal Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, dogs, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and amphibian ...

pulmonate gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the family

Hygromiidae Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. Helicellidae Ihering, 1909 Anatomy Some snails in genera within this family create ...

(the hairy snails and their allies).

Species

This genus contains the following species:'' Species in genus Petasina''
AnimalBase, accessed 5 May 2009. * '' Petasina bakowskii'' (Polinski, 1924) * '' Petasina bielzi'' (Bielz, 1860) * ''

Petasina edentula ''Petasina edentula'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs o ...

'' (Draparnaud, 1805) * '' Petasina filicina'' (Pfeiffer, 1841) * '' Petasina leucozona'' (Pfeiffer, 1828) * '' Petasina lurida'' (Pfeiffer, 1828) * '' Petasina subtecta'' (Polinski, 1929) * '' Petasina unidentata'' (Draparnaud, 1805) -

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

References

Hygromiidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Hygromiidae-stub