''Sinistrexcisa'' is a
genus 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 ...
mollusks in 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 ...
.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Sinistrexcisa'' includes:
* south-west
Cameroon
*
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...
[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '' Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 160: 1-16. .]
Description
A
spermatophore was observed in ''Sinistrexcisa'' for the first time among the Streptaxidae in 1999.
Species
Species within the genus ''Sinistrexcisa'' include:
* ''
Sinistrexcisa cameruniae'' De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - type species, from Southwest Cameroon
* ''
Sinistrexcisa iradieri'' De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - from Equatorial Guinea
* ''
Sinistrexcisa cogoensis'' De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - from Equatorial Guinea
* ''
Sinistrexcisa fang'' De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - from Equatorial Guinea
References
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Streptaxidae