Petasina

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Petasina
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A live individual of Petasina unidentata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Hygromiidae
Subfamily: Trochulininae
Tribe: Trochulini
Genus: Petasina
Beck, 1847 [1]

Petasina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae (the hairy snails and their allies).

Species

This genus contains the following species: [2]

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References

  1. (in German) Beck H. 1847. Verzeichniss einer Sammlung von Landconchylien aus den Dänischen Staaten in Europa, bestehend aus 2,058 Individuen, darstellend 158 Arten, die zu 44 Geschlechtern gehören, eingesandt in Folge Allerhöchsten Befehls zur Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte in Kiel im Jahre 1846 aus dem Königlichen particulären zoologischen Musäum. Amtlicher Bericht über die Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte 24: 122-124. Kiel.
  2. Species in genus Petasina. AnimalBase, accessed 5 May 2009.