''Ponentina'' is a
genus of small 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
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). M ...
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[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996338 on 2021-02-25] the hairy snails and their allies.
Species
Species within this genus include:
* ''
Ponentina antoni''
(E. Gittenberger, 2012)
* ''
Ponentina curtivaginata
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
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D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina excentrica
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
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G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina foiaensis
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
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G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina grandiducta
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina martigena
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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(Férussac, 1832)
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Ponentina monoglandulosa
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina octoglandulosa
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina papillosa
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
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Ponentina platylasia
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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(da Silva e Castro, 1887)
* ''
Ponentina ponentina
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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(Morelet, 1845)
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Ponentina revelata
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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(Michaud, 1831)
* ''
Ponentina rosai
''Ponentina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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(da Silva e Castro, 1887)
* ''
Ponentina subvirescens
''Ponentina subvirescens'' is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.
Distribution
This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands including:
* Great ...
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(Bellamy, 1839), the
type species
;Taxon inquirendum:
* ''Ponentina ponsonbyana''
(Pilsbry, 1895)
References
* AnimalBase info at
* Hesse, P. (1921). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 53 (1/2): 55-83. Frankfurt am Main
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
* Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A. (2012). A review of the genus Ponentina Hesse 1921 with descriptions of seven new species from Portugal and Spain (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Journal of Conchology. 41(2), 173-238
External links
E. Gittenberger, On two nominal Ponentina species (Helicidae, Hygromiinae); Basteria , Volume 42 - Issue 1/3 p. 14- 14
Geomitridae
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