Xeroleuca

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Xeroleuca
Helix mograbina (MNHN-IM-2000-33300).jpeg
Shell of Xeroleuca mograbina (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Geomitridae
Subfamily:
Genus: Xeroleuca
Kobelt, 1877
Type species
Helix turcica Holten, 1802
Synonyms
  • Helix (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877
  • Xerophila (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877 (superseded generic combination)

Xeroleuca is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the typical snails.[1]

It contains the following species:

  • (Mousson, 1873)
  • (Morelet, 1852)
  • (Pallary, 1918)
  • (Holten, 1802)
Taxa inquirenda
  • Xeroleuca babelis Pallary, 1920 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca brulardi Pallary, 1913 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca chabertiana Pallary, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca rebiana Pallary, 1913

References[]

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xeroleuca Kobelt, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996341 on 2021-02-14
  • Morelet, A., 1852. Testa nova Algeriensa. Coquilles nouvelles d'Algérie. Journal de Conchyliologie 3: 61-64
  • Pallary, P. (1929). Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie. Mémoires présentés a l'Institut d'Égypte, 12: 1-43, pl. 1-3. Le Caire.

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