''Portugala'' is a monotypic genus of
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 native to the western
Iberian Peninsula in
Portugal and
Galicia (Spain).
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Portugala E. Gittenberger, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996518 on 2022-02-06]
It has a single species, ''Portugala inchoata''.
Gallery
Portugala inchoata (MNHN-IM-2000-33306) 002.jpeg
Portugala inchoata (MNHN-IM-2000-33307).jpeg
References
* Gittenberger, E. (1980). Three notes on Iberian terrestrial gastropods. Zoologische Mededelingen, 55 (17): 201-213. Leiden.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Caro, A., Neiber, M. T., Gómez-Moliner, B. J. & Madeira, M. J. (2019). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the land snail subfamily Leptaxinae (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 139: 1-11
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Hygromiidae
Fauna of Portugal