Columella (genus)
Columella | |
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Six shells of Columella edentula, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Truncatellinidae |
Genus: | Columella Westerlund, 1878[1] |
Type species | |
Pupa inornata Michaud, 1831 | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Columella is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Truncatellinidae, the whorl snails and allies. [2]
Taxonomy[]
Columella is commonly classified within the Vertiginidae. However, as recently shown by Nekola & Coles (2016). The genus is not that closely related to the Vertiginidae, but may rather be affiliated with the Chondrinidae or form a pupilloid family of its own. A systematic revision is pending. [2]
Species[]
Species within the genus Columella include:
- Almuhambetova, 1979
- Columella aspera Waldén, 1966
- Columella columella (G. v. Martens, 1830)
- Columella edentula (Draparnaud, 1805) - toothless column
- † Schlickum & Geissert, 1980
- (Hanna, 1911)
- Schileyko & Almuhambetova, 1984
- (R.T. Lowe, 1852)
- Hlaváč & Pokryszko, 2009
- (Pilsbry, 1894)
- (Gould, 1840)
- Schileyko & Rymzhanov, 2010
- † Schlickum & Strauch, 1972
- Species brought into synonymy
- Columella inornata (Michaud, 1831): synonym of Columella edentula (Draparnaud, 1805) (junior synonym)
- Columella ninagongonis Pilsbry, 1935: synonym of (Pilsbry, 1935) (original combination)
- Columella tridentata A. B. Leonard, 1946: synonym of (Cockerell, 1899)
References[]
- ^ Westerlund C. A. (1876-1878). Fauna Europæa molluscorum extramarinorum. Prodromus. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium generum et specierum horum animalium in Europa viventium et hodie cognitarum. pp. 1-320. Lundae. (Berlingia).
- ^ a b c MolluscaBase eds. (2020). "Columella". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
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Categories:
- Truncatellinidae