Leiostyla Explained
Leiostyla is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lauriidae.[1] [2] [3]
The genus Leiostyla was previously placed in the subfamily Lauriinae, within the family Pupillidae.
Species
Species in the genus Leiostyla include:
- Leiostyla abbreviata (R. T. Lowe, 1852) - also known as Madeiran land snail
- Leiostyla albina (Pilsbry, 1931)
- Leiostyla anglica (A. Férussac, 1821)
- Leiostyla arborea (R. T. Lowe, 1855)
- † Leiostyla austriaca (Wenz, 1921)
- Leiostyla beatae Walther & Hausdorf, 2015
- Leiostyla calathiscus (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- † Leiostyla capellinii (Sacco, 1886)
- Leiostyla cassida (R. T. Lowe, 1831)- also known as Madeiran land snail
- Leiostyla cassidula (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla castanea (Shuttleworth, 1852)
- † Leiostyla castanheiraensis Groh & Pokryszko, 2019
- Leiostyla caucasica (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Leiostyla cheiligona (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Leiostyla colvillei Seddon & Killeen, 1996
- Leiostyla concinna (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- † Leiostyla cooki Cameron & Pokryszko, 2019
- Leiostyla corneocostata (Wollaston, 1878) - also known as Madeiran land snail
- Leiostyla crassilabris Hausdorf, 1990
- Leiostyla degenerata (Wollaston, 1878)
- † Leiostyla desertaensis Groh, Cameron & Teixeira, 2019
- Leiostyla eikenboomi Bank, Menkhorst & Neubert, 2016
- † Leiostyla espigaoensis Seddon, 1990
- Leiostyla falknerorum Bank, Groh & Ripken, 2002
- Leiostyla ferraria (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla filicum D. T. Holyoak & Seddon, 1986
- Leiostyla fusca (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla fuscidula (Morelet, 1860)
- Leiostyla gibba (R. T. Lowe, 1852) - Madeiran land snail
- Leiostyla glomerosa (Suvorov & Schileyko, 1991)
- † Leiostyla gottschicki (Wenz, 1922)
- Leiostyla heterodon (Pilsbry, 1923)
- Leiostyla honesta (Suvorov & Schileyko, 1991)
- Leiostyla iranica E. Gittenberger & Pieper, 1988
- Leiostyla irrigua (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- † Leiostyla krstichae Prysjazhnjuk, 2015
- Leiostyla lamellosa (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla laurinea (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla loweana (Wollaston, 1878)
- Leiostyla macilenta (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla mica (Schileyko, 1998)
- Leiostyla millegrana (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla monticola (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Leiostyla nemethi Hausdorf, 1996
- Leiostyla numidica (Bourguignat, 1864)
- Leiostyla paphlagonica Hausdorf, 1990
- Leiostyla paulinae (Lindholm, 1913)
- † Leiostyla piserai Harzhauser & Neubauer, 2018
- Leiostyla pontica (Retowski, 1889)
- † Leiostyla priscilla (Paladilhe, 1873)
- Leiostyla pulchra (Retowski, 1883)
- Leiostyla recta (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla rectidentata (Schileyko, 1976)
- Leiostyla relevata (Wollaston, 1878)
- Leiostyla rugulosa (Morelet, 1860)
- Leiostyla schweigeri (Götting, 1963)
- Leiostyla silicea (Schileyko, 1975)
- † Leiostyla simulans Cameron & Groh, 2019
- Leiostyla simulator (Pilsbry, 1923)
- Leiostyla sinangula (Schileyko, 1975)
- Leiostyla sphinctostoma (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- † Leiostyla subcorneocostata Seddon, 1990
- Leiostyla superba Hausdorf, 1990
- Leiostyla superstructa (Mousson, 1876)
- Leiostyla taeniata (Shuttleworth, 1852)
- Leiostyla tenuimarginata (Pilsbry, 1922)
- Leiostyla tesselata (Morelet, 1860)
- Leiostyla vermiculosa (Morelet, 1860)
- Leiostyla vincta (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Leiostyla vitrea (Schileyko, 1988)
- † Leiostyla wollastoni (Paiva, 1866)
- Leiostyla zonifera (Pilsbry, 1934)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- Leiostyla adolfi Pokryszko, 1991: synonym of Leiostyla paulinae (Lindholm, 1913) (junior synonym)
References
- Lindholm, W. A. (1924). A revised systematic list of the genera of the Clausiliidae, recent and fossil, with their subdivisions, synonymy, and types. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 16 (1)
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Notes and References
- Cucherat X. & Demuynck S. Mai 2006. Catalogue annoté des Gastéropodes terrestres (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de la région Nord - Pas-de-Calais. MalaCo, Bulletin de la Malacologie Continentale Française, (2) : page 48. https://web.archive.org/web/20070917151456/http://www.journal-malaco.fr/page-5.html
- Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. 2001 Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
- MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leiostyla R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=842729 on 2021-04-29
