Trochoidea (genus)

Trochoidea

Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Trochoidea Brown, 1827^[1]

Trochoidea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae.

The name means "those that are shaped like a top".

Trochoidea is currently also the name of a superfamily of marine snails with gills, a superfamily that includes the Trochidae and the Turbinidae.

Species

Species within the genus Trochoidea include^[2]:

Trochoidea betulonensis
Trochoidea carinatoglobosa (Haas, 1934)
Trochoidea caroni (Deshayes, 1830)
Trochoidea cucullus (Martens, 1873)
Trochoidea cumiae (Calcara, 1847)
Trochoidea claudinae
Trochoidea elegans (Gmelin, 1791)
Trochoidea gharlapsi
Trochoidea jimenensis
Trochoidea liebetruti (Albers, 1852)
Trochoidea molinae
Trochoidea montserratensis
Trochoidea picardi
Trochoidea pseudojacosta
Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)
Trochoidea seetzenii
Trochoidea spratti (Pfeiffer, 1846)
Trochoidea simulata
Trochoidea tarentina (Pfeiffer, 1848)
Trochoidea trochoides (Poiret, 1789)
Trochoidea zaharensis

Synonyms:

Trochoidea geyeri is a synonym for Xerocrassa geyeri (Soós, 1926)

References

^ Brown T. 1827. Illustrations of conchology of Great Britain and Ireland drawn from nature. pp. 1-65, Pl. 1-52. Edinburgh. (Lizars).
^ Species in genus Trochoidea. AnimalBase, accessed 27 December 2008.

Further reading

Evidence for survival of Pleistocene climatic changes in Northern refugia by the land snail Trochoidea geyeri (Soós 1926) (Helicellinae, Stylommatophora)