Naesiotus pilsbryi

Naesiotus pilsbryi
Naesiotus pilsbryi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Orthalicidae
Genus: Naesiotus
Species: N. pilsbryi
Binomial name
Naesiotus pilsbryi
Weyrauch, 1956[1]

Naesiotus pilsbryi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

Specific name pilsbryi is in honor of American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry.

Distribution

The type locality is Chagual, 07°50’S 077°38’W, 1275 m, La Libertad Region, Peru.[2] This species is known from the type locality only and may be range-restricted.[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]

  1. ^ Weyrauch W. K. (1956). "The genus Naesiotus, with description of new species and notes on other Peruvian Bulimulidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciencies, Philadelphia 108: 1-17. page 6, pl. 1, fig. 4
  2. ^ a b c d Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
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