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Genus of gastropods

Pontophaedusella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Serrulininae
Genus: Pontophaedusella
Nordsieck, H., 1994

Pontophaedusella is a monotypic genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Species

The sole species belonging to this genus is Pontophaedusella offenses Nordsieck 1994. This species is known only from the type locality ("Prov. Trabzon, FF 03, 2 km SW Of"). The anatomy of Pontophaedusella ofensis was described by Szekeres (1998).

References

  1. Nordsieck, H. (1994). "Türkische Clausiliidae, II: Neue Taxa der Unterfamilien Serrulininae und Mentissoideinae in Anatolien (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)"". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 5131–36, Stuttgart.
  2. Szekeres, Miklós (1998). "New and little known Clausiliidae (Gastropoda Pulmonata) from eastern Turkey". Basteria. 62: 169–173.
Taxon identifiers
Pontophaedusella
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