Sitala

Sitala is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae. Sitala is the type genus of the subfamily Sitalinae (which is a synonym of Durgellini.)[1]

For the goddess from India, see Shitala Devi.

Sitala
Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Sitala palmaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Helicarionoidea
Family:
Helicarionidae
Subfamily:
Durgellinae
Tribe:
Durgellini[1]
Genus:
Sitala

Adams, 1865[2]
Synonyms[3]

Cavicola Ancey, 1887
Conulema Stoliczka, 1871
Liocystis Mörch, 1872

Species

Species within the genus Sitala include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Sitala accepta E. A. Smith, 1895: synonym of Kaliella accepta (E. A. Smith, 1895)
  • Sitala bandongensis O. Boettger, 1890: synonym of Kaliella microconus (Mousson, 1865)
  • Sitala baritensis E. A. Smith, 1893: synonym of Kaliella microconus (Mousson, 1865)
  • Sitala cara E. A. Smith, 1895: synonym of Kaliella barrakporensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Sitala demissa E. A. Smith 1895: synonym of Kaliella calculosa (Gould, 1852)
  • Sitala dulcis E. A. Smith, 1895: synonym of Kaliella scandens (Cox, 1871)
  • Sitala elatior Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908: synonym of Thysanota conula (Blanford, 1865)
  • Sitala fimbriosa Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894: synonym of Thysanota conula (Blanford, 1865)
  • Sitala inaequisculpta E. A. Smith, 1895: synonym of Philalanka moluensis (E. A. Smith, 1893)
  • Sitala moluensis E. A. Smith, 1893: synonym of Philalanka moluensis (E. A. Smith, 1893)
  • Sitala orchis Godwin-Austen, 1891: synonym of Kaliella doliolum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
  • Sitala quadricarinata Gude, 1917: synonym of Philalanka kusana (Aldrich, 1889)
  • Sitala raricostulata E. A. Smith, 1893: synonym of Rahula raricostulata (E. A. Smith, 1893)
  • Sitala rumbangensis E. A. Smith, 1895: synonym of Kaliella barrakporensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Sitala singularis Godwin-Austen, 1891: synonym of Kaliella microconus (Mousson, 1865)

References
  1. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. Adams H. (1865). In: Wallace A. R. (1865). "List of the Land shells collected by Mr. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with Descriptions of the New Species by Mr. Henry Adams". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 405-416. page 408.
  3. Bank, R.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Sitala H. Adams, 1865. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=868300 on 2017-11-05
  4. Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.


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