Costigo Explained

Costigo is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Costigo include:

• Costigo calamianica (Möllendorff, 1898)
• Costigo desmazuresi (Crosse, 1873)
• Costigo saparuana (Boettger, 1891)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Costigo borbonica (H. Adams, 1868): synonym of Gibbulinopsis pupula (Deshayes, 1863) (junior synonym)
• Costigo moleculina van Benthem Jutting, 1940: synonym of Pupisoma moleculina (van Benthem Jutting, 1940) (original combination)
• Costigo pulvisculum (Issel, 1874): synonym of Pupisoma pulvisculum (Issel, 1874) (superseded combination)

References

• Crosse, H., 1873. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 136–144
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

External links

• • Boettger, O. (1891). Ad. Strubell´s Konchylien aus Java II und von den Molukken. Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. 1891: 241–318, pl. 3-4

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Costigo O. Boettger, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875182 on 22 September 2020