Perforatella

Perforatella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Hygromiinae of the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Perforatella
Perforatella bidentata shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Hygromiidae
Subfamily: Hygromiinae
Genus: Perforatella
Schlüter, 1838
Species

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Synonyms
  • Dibothrion L. Pfeiffer, 1855
  • Helix (Petasia) Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of Petasia Stephens, 1829 [Lepidoptera])
  • Perforatella (Perforatella) Schlüter, 1838
  • Petasia H. Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of Petasia Stephens, 1829 [Lepidoptera])
  • Trochiscus Held, 1838

This genus of snails is native to northeastern Europe to the Caucasus and Siberia.

Species in this genus of snails create and use love darts in their mating behavior.

Species

Species within the genus Perforatella:

  • Perforatella bidentata (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Perforatella dibotrion (Bielz, 1860)
  • † Perforatella schileykoi Prisyazhnyuk, 1974
Synonyms
  • Perforatella incarnata (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Monachoides incarnatus (O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded generic combination)
  • Perforatella rubiginosa (A. Schmidt, 1853): synonym of Pseudotrichia rubiginosa (Rossmässler, 1838)

References
    • Beck, H. H. (1838). Species novarum in indice molluscorum praesentis aevi musei Principis Christiani Frederici ab autore propositarum characteres breves. Hafniae


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