''Pilorcula'' 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
Orculidae
Orculidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails; terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Orculidae Pilsbry, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
. The species and subspecies in this genus inhabit the
Caucasus and
Turkey to
Palestine
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
* Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...
.
Species and subspecies
Species and subspecies within the genus ''Pilorcula'' include:
[Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)'' (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)"]. ''Archiv für Molluskenkunde'' 125 (1/2): 1-86.]
* ''
Pilorcula aspinosa'' Hausdorf, 1996
* ''
Pilorcula pusilla
''Pilorcula'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The species and subspecies in this genus inhabit the Caucasus and Turkey to Palestine
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'' Hausdorf, 1996
* ''
Pilorcula raymondi
''Pilorcula'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The species and subspecies in this genus inhabit the Caucasus and Turkey to Palestine.
Species and subspecies
Species ...
'' (Bourguignat, 1863) -type species
* ''
Pilorcula trifilaris'' (Mousson, 1856)
* ''Pilorcula trifilaris anatolica'' Hausdorf, 1996
* ''Pilorcula trifilaris longior'' Hausdorf, 1996
* ''Pilorcula trifilaris quadrifilaris'' (Rosen, 1905)
* ''Pilorcula trifilaris trifilaris'' (Mousson, 1856)
References
Orculidae
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