Hyperaulax
| Hyperaulax Temporal range: Miocene-recent
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| Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Hyperaulax ridleyi. | |
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| Genus: | Hyperaulax |
Hyperaulax is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Odontostomidae.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Hyperaulax include:[1]
- Hyperaulax floridanus Conrad - fossil
- Hyperaulax heilprinianus Dall - fossil
- Hyperaulax americanus Dall - fossil
- Hyperaulax strearnsii Dall - fossil
- Hyperaulax ridleyi (E. A. Smith, 1890) - type species, the only living species
References
- ^ a b Pilsbry H. A. (23 February 1897) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10.
- ^ Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.182.2720.
Further reading
Pilsbry H. A. (1897-1898) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 11. American Bulimulidae: Bulimulus, Neopetraeus, Oxychona, and South American Drymaeus. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry. page 82-83
