Huttonella

Huttonella is a genus of land snails in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

This article is about the genus of snails. For the defunct legume genus, see Carmichaelia.

Huttonella
Huttonella bicolor
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:
Huttonella

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:

References
  1. Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Malak. Bl. 2: 174.
  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.
  3. Simone, L. R. L. (2013). Anatomy of predator snail Huttonella bicolor, an invasive species in Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Pulmonata, Streptaxidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(3), 47-58.


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