Maltzanella Explained

Maltzanella is a genus of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. It has two known species distributed in Turkey. The shell is similar to Helix, which is the sister lineage to Maltzanella.^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Maltzanella maltzani (Kobelt, 1903)
• Maltzanella dickhauti (Kobelt, 1883)
• Maltzanella escherichi (Boettger, 1898)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

• Hesse P. (1917). Kritische Fragmente. XVIII. Nochmals Nomenklaturfragen. XVIII. Ein neues Subgenus von Acme. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 49 (3): 122-124. Frankfurt am Main

Notes and References

1. Korábek . Ondřej . Juřičková . Lucie . Petrusek . Adam . 2021-12-31 . Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers? . Diversity . en . 14 . 1 . 24 . 10.3390/d14010024 . 1424-2818 . free .
2. Korábek . Ondřej . Hausdorf . Bernhard . 2023-12-13 . Unravelling the double Helix escherichi, with description of Helix ankae sp. nov. and a discussion of Maltzanella and the subgenera of Helix (Gastropoda: Helicidae) . Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology . en . 152 . 2 . 239–256 . 10.1127/arch.moll/152/239-256 . 1869-0963.