Huttonella
| Huttonella | |
|---|---|
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| Huttonella bicolor | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Subfamily: | Ptychotrematinae |
| Genus: | Huttonella Pfeiffer, 1855[1] |
Huttonella is a genus of land snails in the family Streptaxidae.[2]
Distribution
Huttonella was originally distributed in Africa and southwestern Asia.[3] Today it is a tropical cosmopolitan genus.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus has been described as "an artificial, non-monophyletic assemblage of pupiform, elongated streptaxids".[3]
Species
Species include:
- Huttonella bicolor (Hutton, 1834)
References
- ↑ Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Malak. Bl. 2: 174.
- 1 2 Sutcharit, C., et al. (2010). The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
- 1 2 Simone, L. R. L. (2013). Anatomy of predator snail Huttonella bicolor, an invasive species in Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Pulmonata, Streptaxidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 53(3), 47-58.
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