Hystricella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Species
Species within the genus Hystricella include:
Synonyms:
- Hystricella leacockiana <small>(Wollaston, 1878)</small>: synonym of Wollastonaria leacockiana <small>(Wollaston, 1878)</small> (superseded generic combination)
- Hystricella oxytropis <small>(R. T. Lowe, 1831)</small>: synonym of Wollastonaria oxytropis <small>(R. T. Lowe, 1831)</small> (superseded generic combination)
- Hystricella turricula <small>(R. T. Lowe, 1831)</small>: synonym of Wollastonaria turricula <small>(R. T. Lowe, 1831)</small> (superseded generic combination)
References
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
- Lowe, R. T. (1855 ("1854")). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208
- De Mattia, W., Neiber, M. T. & Groh, K. (2018). Revision of the genus-group Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855 from Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago), with descriptions of new recent and fossil taxa (Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Geomitridae). ZooKeys. 732: 1-125