Poiretia (gastropod)

Poiretia is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

For the plant genus see Poiretia

Poiretia
Poiretia cornea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Testacelloidea
Family:
Spiraxidae
Subfamily:
Euglandininae[1]
Genus:
Poiretia

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Poiretia is an area from Algeria and Italy to the Caucasus.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Poiretia include:

  • Poiretia algira (Bruguière, 1792) - type species[4]
  • Poiretia compressa (Mousson, 1859)[4]
  • Poiretia cornea (Brumati, 1838)[4]
  • Poiretia delesserti (Bourguignat, 1852)[4]
  • Poiretia dilatata (Philippi, 1836)[4]

References
  1. "Poiretia P. Fischer 1883". Fauna Europaea, accessed 17 January 2010.
  2. Fischer P., Oehlert P. & Woodward S. P. (1887). Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un appendice sur les brachipodes. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures et 1138 gravures dans le texte. pp. I-XXIV [= 1-24], 1-1369, [1-6], Pl. [A], I-XXIII [= 1-23], map [1]. Paris. (Savy).
  3. "Genus summary for Poiretia". AnimalBase, last modified 21 May 2008, accessed 19 January 2011.
  4. "Species in genus Poiretia" (n = 5). AnimalBase, accessed 19 January 2011.


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