''Xeroleuca'' 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, a pulmonate
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 ...
in the subfamily Helicellinae of 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 ...
, the typical snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xeroleuca Kobelt, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996341 on 2021-02-14]
It contains the following species:
* ''
Xeroleuca degenerans''
(Mousson, 1873)
* ''
Xeroleuca mogadorensis''
(Bourguignat, 1863)
* ''
Xeroleuca mograbina''
(Morelet, 1852)
* ''
Xeroleuca privatiana''
(Pallary, 1918)
* ''
Xeroleuca renati''
(Dautzenberg, 1894)
* ''
Xeroleuca turcica
''Xeroleuca'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breath ...
''
(Holten, 1802)
;Taxa inquirenda:
* ''Xeroleuca babelis''
Pallary, 1920 (taxon inquirendum)
* ''Xeroleuca brulardi''
Pallary, 1913 (taxon inquirendum)
* ''Xeroleuca chabertiana''
Pallary, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
* ''Xeroleuca rebiana''
Pallary, 1913
References
* Morelet, A., 1852. ''Testa nova Algeriensa. Coquilles nouvelles d'Algérie.'' Journal de Conchyliologie 3: 61-64
* Kobelt, W. (1877). Zusätze und Berichtigungen zu meinem Catalog der im europäischen Faunengebiete lebenden Binnenconchylien. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 4: 14–45.
* Pallary, P. (1929). ''Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie''. Mémoires présentés a l'Institut d'Égypte, 12: 1-43, pl. 1-3. Le Caire.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes, vol. 4. Paris: Levrault. vii + 439 pp., pls 1-12Bouaziz-Yahiatene, H., Inäbnit, T., Medjdoub-Bensaad, F., Colomba, M. S., Sparacio, I., Gregorini, A., Liberto, F. & Neubert, E. (2019). Revisited – the species of Tweeting vineyard snails, genus Cantareus Risso, 1826 (Stylommatophora, Helicidae, Helicinae, Otalini). ZooKeys. 876: 1-26.
Geomitridae
Gastropod genera
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