Parennea

Parennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Parennea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Ptychotrematinae
Genus:
Parennea

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Parennea is Afrotropical.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Parennea include:

    References
    1. Pilsbry H. A. (1919). Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 40: 7, 200, 210.
    2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (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.

    Further reading
    • Adam W. & van Goethem J. L. (1978). Revision du sous-genre Parennea Pilsbry du Genre Ptychotrema Morch (Mollusca-Pulmonata-Streptaxidae)". Études du Continent Africain, Bruxelles 5: 1-79.
    • Bruggen A. C. van (1989) "Studies on Parennea (Mollusca, Gastropoda Pulmonata, Streptaxidae) additional to the revision by Adam & van Goethem, 1978". Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (series C) 92: 1-56.


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