Pittieria

Pittieria
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Pittieria aurantiaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Testacelloidea
Family:	Spiraxidae
Subfamily:	Euglandininae
Genus:	Pittieria von Martens, 1901[1]
Diversity[2]
14 species

Pittieria is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Pittieria extends from Central Mexico to northern Panama.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Pittieria include:

Subgenus Pittieria Von Martens, 1901 include two[2] species:

• Pittieria bicolor Von Martens, 1901 - type species[2]
• Pittieria pittieri (Von Martens, 1901)[2]

Subgenus Laeviglandina Pilsbry, 1908 include nine[2] species:

• Pittieria aurantiaca (Angas, 1879)[2]
• Pittieria broctontomlini (Pilsbry, 1926)[2]
• Pittieria chiriquiensis (Da Costa, 1900)[2]
• Pittieria decidua (Pfeiffer, 1861)[2]
• Pittieria izabellina (Pfeiffer, 1846)[2]
• Pittieria lanceolata (Von Martens, 1891)[2]
• Pittieria obtusa (Pfeiffer, 1844)[2]
• Pittieria tryoniana Pilsbry, 1908[2]
• Pittieria underwoodi (Fulton, 1897)[2]

Subgenus Shuttleworthia H. B. Baker, 1941 include three[2] species:

• Pittieria ambigua (Pfeiffer, 1856)[2]
• Pittieria arborea H. B. Baker, 1941[2]
• Pittieria difficilis (Crosse and Fischer, 1869)[2]

References

1. Martens E. v. (1901). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Mollusca. 601-706. British Museum (Natural History). page 617.
2. Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA" Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)" Archived 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 14 January 2011.