''Pseudiberus'' is a genus of air-breathing
land snails
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 ...
, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family
Bradybaenidae,
inhabiting in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi Provinces.
''
Platypetasus''
Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a centu ...
, 1894[Pilsbry H. A. (1894). '' Manual of Conchology'', In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1894). "Helicidae – Volume VII." (2)9]
page 207Plate 55
fig. 8-9. was previously considered as synonyms of ''Pseudiberus'',
however Zhang et al. (2024)
corrected it via phylogenetics based on morphology and molecules.
Taxonomy
Two subgenera ''Pseudiberus'' and ''Platypetasus'' were synonymized in the study published in 2006 by Min Wu and Gang Qi, because their genital characters and their distribution range largely overlap.
[Wu M. & Qi G. (2006). "A taxonomic note on ''Pseudiberus'' Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae)". '' Folia Malacologica'' 14(1): 25–30.]
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Distribution
These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.
Species list
Species in the genus ''Pseudiberus'':
* ''
Pseudiberus anderssoni''
(Odhner, 1925)
* ''
Pseudiberus depressus''
(Yen, 1935)
* ''
Pseudiberus chentingensis''
Yen, 1935 - synonym: ''Pseudiberus cixianensis'' Chen & Zhang, 2000
* ''
Pseudiberus futtereri''
(Andreae, 1903)
* ''
Pseudiberus tectumsinense''
(Martens, 1873) - type species of the genus ''Pseudiberus''
* ''
Pseudiberus zenonis''
(Gredler, 1882)
* ''
Pseudiberus shanheicus
''Pseudiberus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae, inhabiting in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi Provinces. ''Platypetasus'' Henry Augustus Pilsbry, Pilsbry, 1894Pilsbr ...
''
Zhang et al., 2024
Ecology
These snails live under old stones and in forests. They eat plants.
References
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Bradybaenidae