Pittieria

Pittieria

Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Pittieria aurantiaca
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:	Pittieria von Martens, 1901^[1]
Diversity
14 species^[2]

Pittieria is a genus of land snails in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Pittieria extends from Central Mexico to northern Panama.^[2]

Species

Species in the genus Pittieria include:

subgenus Pittieria Von Martens, 1901 include two^[2] species:

Pittieria bicolor Von Martens, 1901 - type species^[2]
Pittieria pittieri (Von Martens, 1901)^[2]

subgenus Laeviglandina Pilsbry, 1908 include nine^[2] species:

Pittieria aurantiaca (Angas, 1879)^[2]
Pittieria broctontomlini (Pilsbry, 1926)^[2]
Pittieria chiriquiensis (Da Costa, 1900)^[2]
Pittieria decidua (Pfeiffer, 1861)^[2]
Pittieria izabellina (Pfeiffer, 1846)^[2]
Pittieria lanceolata (Von Martens, 1891)^[2]
Pittieria obtusa (Pfeiffer, 1844)^[2]
Pittieria tryoniana Pilsbry, 1908^[2]
Pittieria underwoodi (Fulton, 1897)^[2]

subgenus Shuttleworthia H. B. Baker, 1941 include three^[2] species:

Pittieria ambigua (Pfeiffer, 1856)^[2]
Pittieria arborea H. B. Baker, 1941^[2]
Pittieria difficilis (Crosse and Fischer, 1869)^[2]

References

^ Martens E. v. (1901). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Mollusca. 601-706. British Museum (Natural History). page 617.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s 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 14 January 2011.