Urticicola Explained

Urticicola is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Trochulininae of the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Urticicola include:

• Urticicola glabellus (Draparnaud, 1801) – type species
• Urticicola isaricus (Locard, 1882)
• Urticicola mounierensis (Caziot, 1909)
• Urticicola moutonii (Dupuy, 1847)
• Urticicola perchtae Salvador, 2013 – Middle Miocene, Germany^[2]
• † Urticicola schlickumi H. Nordsieck, 2014
• Urticicola suberinus (Bérenguier, 1882)
• Urticicola umbrosus (Pfeiffer, 1828)

Synonyms:

• Urticicola ventouxiana (L. Forcart, 1946): synonym of Urticicola isaricus ventouxianus (Forcart, 1946)

References

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Urticicola Lindholm, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934197 on 2023-01-17
2. Salvador R. B. (2013). "The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany): Succineidae, Testacelloidea and Helicoidea". Zootaxa 3721(2): 157–171. .