Pseudelma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.[2][3]

Pseudelma
Shell of Pseudelma auribole (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Genus: Pseudelma
Kobelt, 1904[1]
Type species
Ennea incisa Morelet, 1881
Synonyms
  • Elma (Fultonelma) F. Haas, 1951
  • Ennea (Pseudelma) Kobelt, 1904 (original rank)
  • Pseudelma (Fultonelma) F. Haas, 1951· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pseudelma (Marielma) Abdou, Muratov & Bouchet, 2008· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pseudelma (Pseudelma) Kobelt, 1904· accepted, alternate representation

Distribution edit

The distribution of the genus Pseudelma includes:

Species edit

Species within the genus Pseudelma include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Pseudelma madagascariensis Fischer-Piette, F. Blanc & Vukadinovic, 1974: synonym of Elma messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1904)

References edit

  1. ^ Kobelt W. (1904). Syst. Conch. Cab. (2) Lief. 490, 125; (1907). NachrBl. dtsch. malakozool. Ges. 36: 29.
  2. ^ a b c Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pseudelma Kobelt, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996768 on 2022-02-20
  • Abdou A., Muratov I.V. & Bouchet P. (2008). Streptaxid microcosm: the radiation of the endemic genus Pseudelma Kobelt 1904 (Gastropoda Pulmonata Streptaxidae) on Mayotte, Comores. Tropical Zoology. 21: 123-151

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