Maltzanella

Maltzanella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Helicinae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Maltzanella
Hesse, 1917
Synonyms
  • Helix (Maltzanella) P. Hesse, 1917
  • Maltzania P. Hesse, 1908 (preoccupied )

Maltzanella is a genus of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. It has two known species distributed in Turkey. The shell is similar to Helix, which is the sister lineage to Maltzanella.[1][2]

Species

References

  1. ^ Korábek, Ondřej; Juřičková, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam (2021-12-31). "Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers?". Diversity. 14 (1): 24. doi:10.3390/d14010024. ISSN 1424-2818.
  2. ^ Korábek, Ondřej; Hausdorf, Bernhard (2023-12-13). "Unravelling the double Helix escherichi, with description of Helix ankae sp. nov. and a discussion of Maltzanella and the subgenera of Helix (Gastropoda: Helicidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology. 152 (2): 239–256. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/152/239-256. ISSN 1869-0963.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.