Vestia (gastropod)

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Vestia
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.383175 - Vestia (Vestia) gulo (Bielz, 1859) - Clausiliidae - Mollusc shell.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Clausiliinae
Tribe: Baleini
Genus: Vestia
Hesse, 1916
Synonyms
  • UncinariaVest, 1867 nec Frölich, 1789

Vestia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Paul Hesse named Vestia as a nomen novum for UncinariaVest, 1867, which was preoccupied by its senior homonym Uncinaria Frölich, 1789, a genus of nematode. [1]

Species

Species: [2]

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References

  1. Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 48 (3): 124.
  2. "Vestia P.Hesse, 1916". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 October 2021.