Vestia (gastropod)
Vestia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Clausiliinae |
| Tribe: | Baleini |
| Genus: | Vestia Hesse, 1916 |
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Paul Hesse named Vestia as a nomen novum for Uncinaria Vest, 1867, which was preoccupied by its senior homonym Uncinaria Frölich, 1789, a genus of nematode.[1]
Species
Species:[2]
- Vestia elata (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Vestia gulo (Bielz, 1859)
- Vestia lazarovii Dedov, 2012
- Vestia pavlovici (Nordsieck, 1972)
- Vestia ranojevici (Pavlović, 1912)
- Vestia roschitzi (Brancsik, 1890)
- Vestia turgida (Rossmässler, 1836)
References
- Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 48 (3): 124.
- "Vestia P.Hesse, 1916". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
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