Primigulella

Primigulella
Shell of Primigulella usagarica (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Streptaxoidea
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Primigulella Möllendorff, 1887 [1]
Type species
Ennea (Gulella) linguiferaE. von Martens, 1895
Synonyms
AberdariaBlume, 1965 (junior synonym) Gulella (Mirigulella)Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1933 (junior synonym) Gulella (Primigulella)Pilsbry, 1919

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

Species

• Primigulella augur (van Bruggen, 1988)
• Primigulella foliifera (E. von Martens, 1895)
• Primigulella franzi (Blume, 1965)
• Primigulella grossa (E. von Martens, 1892)
• Primigulella jombeneensis (Preston, 1913)
• † Primigulella koruensis Pickford, 2019
• Primigulella linguifera (E. von Martens, 1895)
• Primigulella lobidens (Thiele, 1911)
• Primigulella microtaenia (Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1933)
• † Primigulella miocenica (Verdcourt, 1963)
• Primigulella ndamanyiluensis (Venmans, 1956)
• Primigulella ndiwenyiensis (Rowson & Lange, 2007)
• Primigulella pilula (Preston, 1911)
• Primigulella usagarica (Crosse, 1886)
• Primigulella usambarica (Craven, 1880)

References

1. Möllendorff O. F. von (1887). Jahrb. dtsch. malakozool. Ges.14: 22.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Primigulella Pilsbry, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883861 on 2022-02-07

• Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 40: 1–370, pls I-XXIII.
• Rowson B. & Herbert D.G. (2016). The type species and circumscription of the species-rich Afrotropical snail genus Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856, based on anatomical and mtDNA data (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Streptaxidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 145(1): 69–84.

External links

• Blume, W. (1965). Die Mollusken, die Herr Prof. Franz hauptsächlich während seiner letzten Reise in Innerafrika gesammelt hat. Opuscula zoologica. 90: 1-17
• Rowson, B. (2010). Systematics and diversity of the Streptaxidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, Cardiff. Pp. i–vii + 1–307.