Orculella

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Orculella
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Five views of a shell of Orculella ignorata Hausdorf, 1996
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Orculidae
Genus: Orculella
Steenberg, 1983 [1]

Orculella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The genus Orculella occurs in the whole Mediterranean region. The richest areas in terms of species are Turkey and the Middle East, [2] the Aegean Islands (mainly Crete) [3] and Libya (Cyrenaica). [4] [5] A few species inhabit Southern Spain (O. bulgarica [6] ), Sicily (O. templorum [7] ) and northeastern Africa (O. tingitana [8] ).

Species in the genera Schileykula and Orculella are indistinguishable based on shell characters only. They differ however in the genitalia, primarily in the presence (Orculella) or absence ( Schileykula ) of a penial appendix. [2]

Species and subspecies

Species and subspecies in the genus Orculella [2] [3] include:

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde125 (1/2): 1-86.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Gittenberger & Hausdorf (2004). "The Orculella species of the South Aegean island arc, a neglected radiation (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Orculidae)". Basteria68: 93-124.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Brandt, A. (1956). "Zur Orculidenfauna der Cyrenaica". Archiv für Molluskenkunde85 1/3: 69-82.
  5. 1 2 Zilch, A. (1960). "Neue Landschnecken aus der Cyrenaica". Archiv für Molluskenkunde89: 57-60.
  6. Garrido, J.A.; Arrébola, J.R.; Bertrand, M. (2005). "Extant populations of Orculella bulgarica (Hesse, 1915) in Iberia". Journal of Conchology. 38 (6): 653–662.
  7. Hausdorf, Bernhard (1988). "Zur Kenntnis von Orculella templorum (Benoit 1862) aus Sizilien (Gastropoda: Orculidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 119 (1/3): 77–81.
  8. Pilsbry, H. A. (1922–1926). Manual of Conchology. Vol. XXVII. Pupillidae (Orculinae, Pagodulinae, Acanthinulinae, etc.). Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
  9. Neubert, Eike (1988). "Schileykula commagenensis n. sp., eine neue Art der Orculidae aus Südostanatolien". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 119 (1/3): 73–75.