Papustyla Explained

Papustyla is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.^[1]

Species

This genus contains the following species:^[2]

• Papustyla chancei (Cox, 1870) Chance's Papustyla.
• Papustyla chapmani (Cox 1870), Chapman's Papustyla.
• Papustyla fergusoni (H. Adams, 1872) Ferguson's Papustyla.
• Papustyla hindei (Cox, 1886)
• Papustyla lilium (Fulton, 1905) Lily-white Papustyla.
• Papustyla novaepommeraniae (I. Rensch & B. Rensch, 1929) New Pommeran Papustyla.
• Papustyla pulcherrima (I. Rensch, 1931) Emerald green snail.
• Papustyla xanthochila (Pfeiffer, 1861) Golden mouth Papustyla.

Species brought into synonymy:

• Papustyla horderi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1890): synonym of Papuina antiqua horderi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1890)(superseded combination)

References

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

External links

• Iredale, T. (1941). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Papua. The Australian Zoologist. 10(1): 51-94, pls. 3-4
• Clench, W. J.; Turner, R. D. (1963 ["1962"]). Monographs of the Genera Papustyla, Forcartia and Meliobba (Papuininae: Camaenidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 1(6): 3-33

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Papustyla Pilsbry, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995932 on 2021-12-05
2. Abbott, R. Tucker. 1989. Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists. p. 149.