Varicoturris

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

Varicoturris
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
Genus:
Varicoturris

Diversity[2]
5 species

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Varicoturris includes Mexico and Guatemala.[2]

Species

There are five[2] species within two[2] subgenera in the genus Varicoturris:

Subgenus Vericoturris Pilsbry, 1907

  • Varicoturris dubia (Pfeiffer, 1856)[2]
  • Varicoturris flammulata (H. B. Baker, 1941)[2]
  • Varicoturris huehuetenangoensis (Thompson, 1995)[2]
  • Varicoturris pycnoptyx (Thompson, 1995)[2]

Subgenus Streptostylella Pilsbry, 1908[2]

  • Varicoturris botteriana (Crosse & Fischer, 1869)[2]

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1907). Manual of Conchology (2)19: 161.
  2. Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA". "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)". accessed 18 January 2011.
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