Pyrenaearia
Pyrenaearia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the harry snails and their allies.
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These snails live in limestone areas in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern Europe.
Species
There are 13 species in the genus Pyrenaearia:[2]
- Pyrenaearia cantabrica (Hidalgo, 1873)
- Pyrenaearia carascalensis (Férussac, 1821) - type species
- Pyrenaearia carascalopsis (Bourguignat in Fagot, 1884)
- Pyrenaearia cotiellae (Fagot, 1906)
- Pyrenaearia daanidentata Raven, 1988
- Pyrenaearia molae Haas, 1924
- Pyrenaearia navasi (Fagot, 1907)
- Pyrenaearia oberthueri (Ancey, 1884)
- Pyrenaearia organiaca (Fagot, 1905)
- Pyrenaearia parva Ortiz de Zárate, 1956
- Pyrenaearia poncebensis Ortiz de Zárate, 1956
- Pyrenaearia schaufussii (Kobelt, 1876)
- Pyrenaearia velascoi (Hidalgo, 1867)
References
- (in German) Hesse P. (1921) "Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 53(1-2): 55-83.
- Species in genus Pyrenaearia. AnimalBase, accessed 28 November 2009
Further reading
Elejalde M. A., Madeira M. J., Prieto C. E., Backeljau T., Gómez-Moliner B. J. (July 2009) "Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of the Land Snail Genus Pyrenaearia (Gastropoda, Helicoidea)". American Malacological Bulletin 27(1-2): 69-81. doi:10.4003/006.027.0206
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