Tudorella

Tudorella is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.

Tudorella
Apertural view of a shell and operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiidae
Subfamily: Pomatiinae
Genus: Tudorella
Fischer, 1885[1]

Distribution

This genus of land snails inhabits the coasts of the western Mediterranean Sea.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Tudorella include:[2][3]

Species brought into synonymy
  • † Tudorella conica (Klein, 1853): synonym of † Pomatias conicus (Klein, 1853)

References
  1. (in French) Fischer P., Œhlert 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). page 747.
  2. Pfenninger M., Véla E., Jesse R., Elejalde M. A., Liberto F., Magnin F. & Martínez-Ortí A. (2009)."Temporal speciation pattern in the western Mediterranean genus Tudorella P. Fischer, 1885 (Gastropoda, Pomatiidae) supports the Tyrrhenian vicariance hypothesis". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(2): 427-436. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.09.024.
  3. Martínez-Ortí A., Elejalde M. A., Madeira M. J. & Gómez-Moliner B. (June 2008). "Morphological and DNA-based taxonomy of Tudorella P. Fischer, 1885 (Caenogastropoda, Pomatiidae)". Journal of Conchology 39(5): 553-568.
  4. Giusti, F., Manganelli, G., Schembri, P.J., (1995). The non-marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie delle Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, XV, Torino, p. 607.
  • Welter-Schultes, F.W. (2012). European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. Planet Poster Editions, Göttingen.


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