Pfeifferia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicostylinae of the family Camaenidae.[1]
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Pfeifferia |
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Shell of Pfeifferia stevenliei (holotype at MNHN, Paris) |
Scientific classification |
Domain: |
Eukaryota |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Mollusca |
Class: |
Gastropoda |
Order: |
Stylommatophora |
Infraorder: |
Helicoidei |
Superfamily: |
Helicoidea |
Family: |
Camaenidae |
Genus: |
Pfeifferia Gray, 1853 |
Type species |
Helix micans L. Pfeiffer, 1845
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Synonyms[1] |
- Chloraea (Chromatosphaera) Pilsbry, 1892(superseded generic combination)
- Chloraea (Pfeifferia) Gray, 1853 (superseded combination)
- Cochlostyla (Chromatosphaera) Pilsbry, 1892 (superseded generic combination)
- Cochlostyla (Pfeifferia) Gray, 1853 (superseded combination)
- Helicostyla (Chromatosphaera) Pilsbry, 1892 (superseded combination)
- Helicostyla (Pfeifferia) Gray, 1853 (unaccepted rank)
- Pfeifferia (Chromatosphaera) Pilsbry, 1892 · alternate representation
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- Pfeifferia aurata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841)
- Pfeifferia erubescens (C. Semper, 1877)
- Pfeifferia lividocincta (C. Semper, 1877)
- Pfeifferia luteocincta (C. Semper, 1877)
- Pfeifferia micans (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Pfeifferia pudibunda (C. Semper, 1877)
- Pfeifferia stevenliei Thach & Abbas, 2021
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
- Gray, J. E. (1853). Descriptions of two new genera (Pfeifferia and Janella) of land Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 12: 412–417
- Pilsbry, H. A. (1891-1892). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 7: Helicidae, vol.5. pp 1-225, pls 1-61. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences.
- Mörch, O. A. L. (1865). Quelques mots sur un arrangement des mollusques pulmonés terrestres (Géophiles, Fér.) basé sur le système naturel. Journal de Conchyliologie. 13: 376-396