Pseudiberus

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

Pseudiberus
Pseudiberus chentingensis shell
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:
Bradybaenidae
Genus:
Pseudiberus

Ancey, 1887[1]
Synonyms[2]

Taxonomy

Two subgenera Pseudiberus and Platypetasus were synonymized in the study published in 2006 by Min Wu and Gang Qi, because their genital characters and their distribution range largely overlap.[2]

Distribution

These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.

Species list

Species in the genus Pseudiberus:

  • Pseudiberus anderssoni (Odhner, 1925)
    • Pseudiberus anderssoni depressa (Yen, 1935)
  • Pseudiberus anisopleurus Ancey, 1897
  • Pseudiberus castanopsis (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus causius (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus chentingensis Yen, 1935 - synonym: Pseudiberus cixianensis Chen & Zhang, 2000[2]
    • Pseudiberus chentingensis latispira Yen, 1935[2]
  • Pseudiberus chitralensis (Odhner, 1963)
  • Pseudiberus encaustochilus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus futtereri (Andreae, 1903)
  • Pseudiberus innominatus (Heude, 1885)
    • Pseudiberus innominatus aquilus (H. Adams, 1870)
    • Pseudiberus innominatus duplicatus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus lancasteri (Gude, 1919)
  • Pseudiberus mariellus (H. Adams, 1870)
    • Pseudiberus mariellus submariellus (Pilsbry, 1893)
  • Pseudiberus mataianensis (Nevill, 1878)
  • Pseudiberus obrutschewi (Sturany, 1901)
  • Pseudiberus plectotropis (Martens, 1864)
  • Pseudiberus strophostomus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus tectumsinense (Martens, 1873) - type species of the genus Pseudiberus[1][2]
  • Pseudiberus trochomorphus (Möllendorff, 1899)
    • Pseudiberus trochomorphus microtrochus (Möllendorff, 1887)
    • Pseudiberus trochomorphus wentschuanensis (Blume, 1925)
  • Pseudiberus zenonis (Gredler, 1882)

Ecology

These snails live under old stones and in forests. They eat plants.

References
  1. Ancey C. F. (1887). "Description of new genera or subgenera of Helicidae". The Conchologists’ Exchange 1(12): 75-76. page 76.
  2. Wu M. & Qi G. (2006). "A taxonomic note on Pseudiberus Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae)". Folia Malacologica 14(1): 25–30. doi:10.12657/folmal.014.003 PDF.
  3. Pilsbry H. A. (1894). Manual of Conchology, In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1894). "Helicidae – Volume VII." (2)9: page 207. Plate 55, fig. 8-9.
  • 月季花中的星辰 (2015-09-26). "蛇蜗牛像薯片" [Pseudiberus species looks like potato chips] (in Chinese). GuoKr. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
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