Platyla Explained

Platyla is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Aciculidae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Platyla include:

• Platyla albanica Subai, 2012
• † Platyla alta (Clessin, 1911)
• Platyla banatica (Rossmässler, 1842)
• † Platyla beatricis (Gaál, 1910)
• † Platyla callosa (O. Boettger, 1870)
• † Platyla callosiuscula (Andreae, 1904)
• Platyla callostoma (Clessin, 1911)
• † Platyla conica (Michaud, 1862)
• Platyla cryptomena (de Folin & Bérillon, 1877)
• Platyla curtii (A. J. Wagner, 1912)
• Platyla dupuyi (Paladilhe, 1868)
• Platyla elisabethae (L. Pintér & Szigethy, 1973)
• † Platyla eocaena (Oppenheim, 1895)
• † Platyla falkneri Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• Platyla feheri Subai, 2009
• Platyla foliniana (G. Nevill, 1879)
• Platyla gracilis (Clessin, 1877)
• Platyla hedionda Torres Alba, 2012
• Platyla jankowskiana (Jackiewicz, 1979)
• Platyla jordai Altaba, 2013
• † Platyla klemmi (Schlickum & Strauch, 1972)
• Platyla lusitanica (D. T. Holyoak & Seddon, 1985)
• Platyla maasseni Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• † Platyla manganellii Harzhauser, Neubauer & Esu in Harzhauser et al., 2015
• Platyla merillaensis Quiñonero-Salgado, Ruiz Cobo & Rolán, 2017
• Platyla microspira (Pini, 1885)
• Platyla minutissima Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• Platyla orthostoma (Jackiewicz, 1979)
• Platyla peloponnesica Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• Platyla perpusilla (Reinhardt, 1880)
• Platyla pezzolii Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• Platyla pinteri (Subai, 1976)
• Platyla polita (W. Hartmann, 1840)
• Platyla procax Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• Platyla sardoa Cianfanelli, Talenti, Bodon & Manganelli, 2000
• Platyla similis (Reinhardt, 1880)
• Platyla stussineri (O. Boettger, 1884)
• Platyla subdiaphana (Bivona, 1839)
• † Platyla subfusca (Flach, 1889)
• † Platyla subpolita (Gottschick, 1921)
• Platyla talentii Bodon & Cianfanelli, 2008
• Platyla turcica Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
• Platyla wilhelmi (A. J. Wagner, 1910)

Synonyms:

• Platyla ceraunorum A. Reischütz, N. Steiner-Reischütz & P. L. Reischütz, 2016: synonym of Platyla similis (Reinhardt, 1880) (junior subjective synonym)
• Platyla corpulenta Subai, 2009: synonym of Platyla procax Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 (junior subjective synonym)
• Platyla oedogyra (Paladilhe, 1868): synonym of Platyla polita (W. Hartmann, 1840) (junior synonym)

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
• Boeters, H. D.; Gittenberger, E. & Subai, P. (1989). Die Aciculidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 252: 1-234. Leiden

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933919 on 2022-01-24