Trochomorpha

Trochomorpha is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae. [1]

Trochomorpha
Shell of Trochomorpha saigonensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Trochomorphidae
Genus:	Trochomorpha Albers, 1850
Type species
Helix trochiformis L. Pfeiffer, 1842
Synonyms
Helix (Trochomorpha) Albers, 1850 (original rank) Nanina (Trochomorpha) Albers, 1850 Necvidena Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym) Rosselidena Iredale, 1941 (original rank) Trochomorpha (Cotitrochus) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation Trochomorpha (Hartmanitrochus) Solem, 1959· accepted, alternate representation Trochomorpha (Lauhala) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation Trochomorpha (Lentitrochus) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation Trochomorpha (Ludificator) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation Trochomorpha (Rosselidena) Iredale, 1941· accepted, alternate representation

Species

Species within the genus Trochomorpha include:

• Trochomorpha apia
• Trochomorpha approximata
• Trochomorpha carolinae
• Trochomorpha conoides
• Trochomorpha contigua
• Trochomorpha kuesteri
• Trochomorpha melvillensis
• Trochomorpha nigritella
• Trochomorpha saigonensis (Crosse, 1867)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Trochomorpha Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818615 on 2020-12-20

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

External links

• Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
• Iredale, T. (1941). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Papua. The Australian Zoologist. 10(1): 51-94, pls. 3-4
• Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370
• Solem, A. (1959). Systematics and zoogeography of the land and fresh-water Mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana Zoology. 4(3): 1-359
• Animal Base info on the genus