Ampelita is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.[2]

Ampelita
Ampelita duvalii (Petit de la Saussaye, 1844)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Family:
Genus:
Ampelita

Beck, 1837[1]
Synonyms
  • Ampelita (Vescona) Emberton, 1990· accepted, alternate representation
  • Ampelita (Xystera) Emberton, 1990· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helix (Ampelita) H. Beck, 1837

Species edit

Species within the genus Ampelita include:

References edit

  1. ^ Beck (1837). Index Moll. Mus. Ch. Fred. (1): 30.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Ampelita H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995409 on 2018-11-19
  3. ^ a b c d Emberton K. C. & Griffiths O. L. (2009). "Pulmonate land mollusks from three rainforest transects in northeastern Madagascar: part 1 of 2, with descriptions of 12 new * And one new subspecies (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 138(2): 137-167. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/138/137-167.
  4. ^ Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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