''Primigulella'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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 ...
mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Enneinae of the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.
Stre ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883861 on 2022-02-07]
Species
* ''
Primigulella augur''
(van Bruggen, 1988)
* ''
Primigulella foliifera
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate g ...
''
(E. von Martens, 1895)
* ''
Primigulella franzi''
(Blume, 1965)
* ''
Primigulella grossa
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World ...
''
(E. von Martens, 1892)
* ''
Primigulella jombeneensis
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World ...
''
(Preston, 1913)
* † ''
Primigulella koruensis
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: Wor ...
''
Pickford, 2019
* ''
Primigulella linguifera
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: Wor ...
''
(E. von Martens, 1895)
* ''
Primigulella lobidens
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: Wor ...
''
(Thiele, 1911)
* ''
Primigulella microtaenia
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: Wor ...
''
(Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1933)
* † ''
Primigulella miocenica
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: Wor ...
''
(Verdcourt, 1963)
* ''
Primigulella ndamanyiluensis
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World ...
''
(Venmans, 1956)
* ''
Primigulella ndiwenyiensis
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World ...
''
(Rowson & Lange, 2007)
* ''
Primigulella pilula
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World ...
''
(Preston, 1911)
* ''
Primigulella usagarica
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World ...
''
(Crosse, 1886)
* ''
Primigulella usambarica
''Primigulella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate g ...
''
(Craven, 1880)
References
* Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 40: 1–370, pls I-XXIII.
* Rowson B. & Herbert D.G. (2016). The type species and circumscription of the species-rich Afrotropical snail genus Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856, based on anatomical and mtDNA data (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Streptaxidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 145(1): 69–84.
External links
Blume, W. (1965). Die Mollusken, die Herr Prof. Franz hauptsächlich während seiner letzten Reise in Innerafrika gesammelt hat. Opuscula zoologica. 90: 1-17Rowson, B. (2010). Systematics and diversity of the Streptaxidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, Cardiff. Pp. i–vii + 1–307.
Streptaxidae
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