Columbinia Explained

Columbinia is a left-handed, air-breathing land snails genus in the family Clausiliidae.

Species

Species within the genus Columbinia include:

subgenus Columbinia Polinski, 1924

• Columbinia columbiana (Polinski, 1924) - type species^[1]
• Columbinia elegans Nordsieck, 2010^[2]
• Columbinia elegantula Nordsieck, 2010^[2]
• Columbinia marcapatensis Nordsieck, 2010^[2]

subgenus Paranenia Rehder, 1939^[3]

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subgenus Steatonenia Pilsbry, 1926^[4]

• Columbinia hemmeni Nordsieck, 2010^[2]

Notes and References

1. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=72 "Genus summary for Columbinia"
2. Nordsieck H. (2010). "New taxa of the subfamilies Neniinae and Garnieriinae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 45-69. .
3. Rehder (1939). J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 29: 173.
4. Pilsbry H. A. (1926). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 78: 9.