Tortulosa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupinidae.
These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.
34 species are recognized.
Species
- Tortulosa albescens <small>(Blanford, 1880)</small>
- Tortulosa aurea <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa austeniana <small>(Benson 1853)</small>
- Tortulosa barnaclei <small>Tomlin 1928</small>
- Tortulosa blanfordi <small>(Dohrn, 1862)</small>
- Tortulosa calcadensis <small>(Blanford, 1869)</small>
- Tortulosa colletti <small>(Sykes, 1898)</small>
- Tortulosa congener <small>(Sykes, 1905)</small>
- Tortulosa connectens <small>(Fulton, 1903)</small>
- Tortulosa costulata <small>(Blanford, 1880)</small>
- Tortulosa cumingi <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa decora <small>(Benson, 1853) </small>
- Tortulosa duplicate <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa eurytrema <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa greeni <small>(Sykes, 1899)</small>
- Tortulosa haemastoma <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa hartleyi <small>Tomlin 1928</small>
- Tortulosa layardi <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa leucocheilus <small>(A. Adams & Sowerby, 1866)</small>
- Tortulosa marginata <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa naggsi <small>Raheem & S. Schneider, 2017</small> - extinct
- Tortulosa nevilli <small>(Sykes, 1898)</small>
- Tortulosa nietneri <small>(Nevill, 1871)</small>
- Tortulosa presoni <small>(Sykes, 1905)</small>
- Tortulosa pyramidata <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa recurvata <small>(Pfeiffer, 1862)</small>
- Tortulosa rugosa <small>(Fulton, 1903)</small>
- Tortulosa smithi <small>(Sykes, 1905)</small>
- Tortulosa sykesi <small>(Fulton, 1903)</small>
- Tortulosa templemani <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa thwaitesi <small>(Pfeiffer 1855)</small>
- Tortulosa tortuosa <small>(Gray, 1825)</small>
Synonyms:
- Tortulosa huberi <small>Thach, 2018</small>: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa <small>(Gray, 1825)</small> (junior subjective synonym)
- Tortulosa schileykoi <small>Thach & F. Huber, 2018</small>: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa <small>(Gray, 1825)</small> (junior subjective synonym)
References
- Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1948). New Malay land-shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 27: 224âÂÂ225, 1 plate.
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