Pleuroxia

Pleuroxia
Shell of Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Pleuroxia
Ancey 1887[1]
Type species
Helix cyrtopleura
L. Pfeiffer, 1862
Synonyms
  • Angasella A. Adams in Angas, 1864 (not used after 1899 as erroneously considered a homonym of Angasiella Crosse, 1864)
  • Angasietta Iredale, 1939
  • Gantomia Iredale, 1939

Pleuroxia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Pleuroxia include:

Synonyms

References

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  1. ^ Ancey C. M. F. (1887). Conch. Exchange 2: 38.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleuroxia Ancey, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818486 on 31 January 2022
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