Hungerfordia (gastropod) explained

Hungerfordia is a genus of small land snails with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae endemic to the Republic of Palau.^{[1] [2] [3]} Many of the members of this genus inhabit limestone cliffs or rubble, especially in the Rock Islands (Chelbacheb) in Airai, Koror, and Peleliu states.^[4] As of 2022, there are 41 described species in this genus.^[5] A series of revisions in 2013 - 2015 described several new species, as well as transferring Palauan members of the genus Diplommatina or Palaina (including Palau endemics Diplommatina alata,^[6] D. aurea,^[7] D. crassilabris,^[8] D. gibboni,^[9] D. inflatula,^[10] D. lamellata,^[11] D. lutea,^[12] D. pyramis,^[13] and D. ringens^[14]) into Hungerfordia.

Species

Species within the genus Hungerfordia include:

• Hungerfordia alata
• Hungerfordia angaurensis
• Hungerfordia aspera
• Hungerfordia aurea
• Hungerfordia basodonta
• Hungerfordia brachyptera
• Hungerfordia chilorhytis
• Hungerfordia crassilabris
• Hungerfordia crenata
• Hungerfordia echinata
• Hungerfordia elegantissima
• Hungerfordia eurystoma
• Hungerfordia expansilabris
• Hungerfordia fragilipennis
• Hungerfordia gibboni
• Hungerfordia globosa
• Hungerfordia goniobasis
• Hungerfordia inflatula
• Hungerfordia irregularis
• Hungerfordia lamellata
• Hungerfordia longissima
• Hungerfordia loxodonta
• Hungerfordia lutea
• Hungerfordia microbasodonta
• Hungerfordia ngereamensis
• Hungerfordia nodulosa
• Hungerfordia nudicollum
• Hungerfordia omphaloptyx
• Hungerfordia papilio
• Hungerfordia pelewensis
• Hungerfordia polymorpha
• Hungerfordia pteropurpuroides
• Hungerfordia pyramis
• Hungerfordia ringens
• Hungerfordia robiginosa
• Hungerfordia rudicostata
• Hungerfordia spinoscapula
• Hungerfordia spiroperculata
• Hungerfordia subalata
• Hungerfordia triplochilus
• Hungerfordia unisulcata

Subspecies

There are currently 19 named subspecies of Hungerfordia distributed among 8 different species:^[15]

• Hungerfordia crassilabris attenuata
• Hungerfordia crassilabris crassilabris
• Hungerfordia crassilabris tridentata
• Hungerfordia echinata echinata
• Hungerfordia echinata tubulispina
• Hungerfordia elegantissima anomphala
• Hungerfordia elegantissima elegantissima
• Hungerfordia goniobasis dmasechensis
• Hungerfordia goniobasis exserta
• Hungerfordia goniobasis goniobasis
• Hungerfordia lutea hemilaevis
• Hungerfordia lutea lutea
• Hungerfordia papilio papilio
• Hungerfordia papilio stenoptera
• Hungerfordia pyramis pteroma
• Hungerfordia pyramis pyramis
• Hungerfordia ringens ringens
• Hungerfordia ringens rotundata
• Hungerfordia ringens ventrinodus

References

• http://www.ubio.org/NZ/search.php?search=Hungerfordia&quickSearch=QuickSearch&selectall=Check+All&colname=on&colcategory=on&colauthority=on&colcomments=on&page=&vol= Nomenclator Zoologicus info]

Notes and References

1. Yamazaki . Kazunori . Yamazaki . Midori . Ueshima . Rei . 2013-12-02 . Systematic review of diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae) endemic to the Palau Islands. (1) Generic classification and revision of Hungerfordia species with highly developed axial ribs . Zootaxa . 3743 . 1 . 1–71 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3743.1.1 . 25113222 . 1175-5334.
2. Yamazaki . Kazunori . Yamazaki . Midori . Ueshima . Rei . 2015-06-01 . Systematic review of diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae) endemic to the Palau Islands. (2) Taxonomic revision of Hungerfordia species with low axial ribs . Zootaxa . 3976 . 1 . 1–89 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3976.1.1 . 1175-5334 . 26249932.
3. Yamazaki . Midori . Yamazaki . Kazunori . Rundell . Rebecca J . Ueshima . Rei . 2015-12-01 . Systematic review of diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae) endemic to the Palau Islands. (3) Description of eight new species and two new subspecies of Hungerfordia . Zootaxa . 4057 . 4 . 511–538 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.3 . 1175-5334 . 26701496.
4. Rundell . Rebecca J . 2008-10-27 . Cryptic diversity, molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the rock- and leaf litter-dwelling land snails of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 363 . 1508 . 3401–3412 . 10.1098/rstb.2008.0110. 18765361 . 2607371 .
5. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia Beddome, 1889 . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org.
6. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia alata (Crosse, 1866) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org.
7. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia aurea (Beddome, 1889) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org . en.
8. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia crassilabris (Beddome, 1889) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org . en.
9. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia gibboni (Beddome, 1889) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org.
10. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia inflatula (Crosse, 1866) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org . en.
11. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia lamellata (Crosse, 1866) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org.
12. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia lutea (Beddome, 1889) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org . en.
13. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia pyramis (Crosse, 1866) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org . en.
14. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia ringens (Crosse, 1866) . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org . en.
15. Web site: Molluscabase - Hungerfordia Beddome, 1889 . 2022-08-21 . molluscabase.org.