Tortulosa
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| Shell of Tortulosa tortuosa (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Pupinidae |
| Genus: | Tortulosa Gray, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Pupa tortuosa Gray, 1825 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tortulosa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupinidae.[2][1]
These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.[3]
34 species are recognized.[4][5][6]
Species[edit]
- Tortulosa albescens (Blanford, 1880)
- Tortulosa aurea (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa austeniana (Benson 1853)
- Tortulosa barnaclei Tomlin 1928
- Tortulosa blanfordi (Dohrn, 1862)
- Tortulosa calcadensis (Blanford, 1869)
- Tortulosa colletti (Sykes, 1898)
- Tortulosa congener (Sykes, 1905)
- Tortulosa connectens (Fulton, 1903)
- Tortulosa costulata (Blanford, 1880)
- Tortulosa cumingi (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa decora (Benson, 1853)
- Tortulosa duplicate (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa eurytrema (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa greeni (Sykes, 1899)
- Tortulosa haemastoma (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa hartleyi Tomlin 1928
- Tortulosa layardi (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa leucocheilus (A. Adams & Sowerby, 1866)
- Tortulosa marginata (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa naggsi Raheem & S. Schneider, 2017 - extinct
- Tortulosa nevilli (Sykes, 1898)
- Tortulosa nietneri (Nevill, 1871)
- Tortulosa presoni (Sykes, 1905)
- Tortulosa pyramidata (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa recurvata (Pfeiffer, 1862)
- Tortulosa rugosa (Fulton, 1903)
- Tortulosa smithi (Sykes, 1905)
- Tortulosa sykesi (Fulton, 1903)
- Tortulosa templemani (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa thwaitesi (Pfeiffer 1855)
- Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825)
- Synonyms
- Tortulosa huberi Thach, 2018: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825) (junior subjective synonym)
- Tortulosa schileykoi Thach & F. Huber, 2018: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825) (junior subjective synonym)
References[edit]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tortulosa Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990894 on 2022-10-06
- ^ "Tortulosa Gray, 1847". itis. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ Bambaradeniya, Channa N. B. (2006). The Fauna of Sri Lanka: Status of Taxonomy, Research, and Conservation. ISBN 9789558177518. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ "Taxon details - Tortulosa Gray, 1847 9". WoRMS. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ "Family: PUPINIDAE". WMSD. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ^ "Shell Encyclopedia". conchology. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1948). New Malay land-shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 27: 224–225, 1 plate.
External links[edit]
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- Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
- Pfeiffer, L. (1851-1852). Conspectus Cyclostomaceorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 8(10): 145–160 [December 1851]; 8(11): 161–176
- Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map