''Ponentina'' is a
genus
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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 ...
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
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 ...
.
[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''
D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
Ponentina excentrica''
G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
Ponentina foiaensis''
G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
Ponentina grandiducta''
G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
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 ...
''
(Férussac, 1832)
* ''
Ponentina monoglandulosa''
D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
Ponentina octoglandulosa''
D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
Ponentina papillosa''
G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012
* ''
Ponentina platylasia''
(da Silva e Castro, 1887)
* ''
Ponentina ponentina''
(Morelet, 1845)
* ''
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 ...
''
(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 ...
''
(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
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 specimen ...
;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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