Peltella

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Peltella
Pedramacc.jpg
A live individual of
Pedramaca.jpg
P. Iheringi hanging on leaves on the slope of Serra do Mar, between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bulimulidae
Subfamily:
Peltellinae[1]
Genus:
Peltella

Gray, 1855
Diversity
See text
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Peltella is endemic to the tropical and subtropical forests of southeastern Brazil.

Peltella is a genus of air-breathing, tropical semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bulimulidae. It occurs in the Atlantic neotropical South America, being endemic to the humid tropical and subtropical forests of southeastern Brazil. The animals have pale pink to yellow general body coloration with white streaks (e.g., ) and are devoid of an external shell.[2][3]

Species[]

The genus includes the following species:

  • (, 1821)
  • Leme, 1968

References[]

  1. ^ Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1–20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  2. ^ von Ihering, H. (1892). "Descripção e anatomia da Peltella" (PDF). Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese). 8: 135–153.
  3. ^ "Peltella Gray, 1855". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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