Sitala
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For the goddess from India, see Shitala Devi.
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| Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Sitala palmaria | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Subfamily: | Durgellinae |
| Tribe: | Durgellini[1] |
| Genus: | Sitala Adams, 1865[2] |
Sitala is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae. Sitala is the type genus of Sitalinae, that is a synonym of Durgellini.[1]
[edit] Species
Species within the genus Sitala include:
- Sitala denselirata (Preston, 1908)
- Sitala jenynsi (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)[3]
- Sitala liricincta (Stolickzka, 1871)
- Sitala mazumbaiensis Verdcourt
- Sitala palmaria (Benson, 1864)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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