Ennea (gastropod)

Ennea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Streptaxoidea
Family:	Streptaxidae
Subfamily:	Enneinae
Genus:	Ennea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 [1]
Type species
Pupa elegantulaL. Pfeiffer, 1846
Synonyms
CarychiopsisE. von Martens, 1895 Ennea (Carychiopsis)E. von Martens, 1895 Ennea (Enneastrum)L. Pfeiffer, 1856 EnneastrumL. Pfeiffer, 1856 Pupa (Ennea)H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank)

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

Ennea is the type genus of the subfamily Enneinae. ^[3]

This genus has become a synonym of Ptychotrema L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Ennea is Afrotropical ^[2] and includes:

Species

Species within the genus Ennea include:

• Ennea arthuriPreston, 1913: synonym of Gulella odhneriana Dupuis, 1923
• Ennea cylindracea E.A. Smith, 1897 (taxon inquirendum)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Ennea alienaBavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: synonym of Indoennea aliena(Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) accepted as Sinoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) (original combination)

References

1. Adams (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll.2: 171.
2. 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. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.

• Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

• Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 231-234. page 233.
• Preston H. B. (1914). "Characters of three new species of Ennea from southern Nigeria". Proceedings of the Malacological Society , London 11: 134-136.