Pyrenaearia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pyrenaearia
Pyrenaearia cantabrica 01.JPG
Pyrenaearia cantabrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Genus:
Pyrenaearia

Hesse, 1921[1]
Species

See text

Pyrenaearia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the harry snails and their allies.

These snails live in limestone areas in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern Europe.

Species[]

There are 13 species in the genus Pyrenaearia:[2]

References[]

  1. ^ (in German) Hesse P. (1921) "Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 53(1-2): 55-83.
  2. ^ Species in genus Pyrenaearia. AnimalBase, accessed 28 November 2009

Further reading[]

Elejalde M. A., Madeira M. J., Prieto C. E., Backeljau T., Gómez-Moliner B. J. (July 2009) "Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of the Land Snail Genus Pyrenaearia (Gastropoda, Helicoidea)". American Malacological Bulletin 27(1-2): 69-81. doi:10.4003/006.027.0206


Retrieved from ""