Acanthinula

Acanthinula
Four shells of Acanthinula aculeata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Valloniidae
Subfamily:	Acanthinulinae
Genus:	Acanthinula Beck, 1847
Synonyms
Aulaca Westerlund, 1903 junior objective synonym Helix (Acanthinula) H. Beck, 1847 (original rank) Helix (Aculeatiana) Caziot, 1910 junior objective synonym Helix (Euacanthinula) Westerlund, 1889 junior objective synonym

Acanthinula is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae.

Species

The genus Acanthinula contains the following species:

• Acanthinula aculeata (Müller, 1774) - type species
• † Acanthinula antonini (Michaud, 1862)
• † Acanthinula archiaci (de Boissy, 1848)
• † Acanthinula armoricensis (Cossmann, 1902)
• Acanthinula azorica Pilsbry, 1926 - Azorian prickly-snail
• † Acanthinula cenchridium (Cossmann, 1902)
• † Acanthinula clairi Schlickum & Truc, 1972
• † Acanthinula dumasi (de Boissy, 1848)
• Acanthinula expatriata Preston, 1911
• † Acanthinula geslini (de Boissy, 1848)
• † Acanthinula hesslerana Jooss, 1911
• † Acanthinula imperforata (K. Miller, 1907)
• † Acanthinula karsdorfensis Kadolsky, 2020
• † Acanthinula nanxiongensis W. Yu, H.-L. Gu & X.-Q. Zhang, 1990
• † Acanthinula paludinaeformis (F. Sandberger, 1858)
• † Acanthinula paronae (Sacco, 1887)
• Acanthinula peracanthoda (Bourguignat, 1883)
• † Acanthinula pygmaea (Simionescu & Barbu, 1940)
• Acanthinula spinifera Mousson, 1872
• † Acanthinula stampinensis (Deshayes, 1863)
• Acanthinula straeleni W. Adam, 1954
• † Acanthinula stueri (Cossmann, 1892)
• † Acanthinula sublabyrinthica (F. E. Edwards, 1852)
• † Acanthinula trochulus (F. Sandberger, 1872)
• † Acanthinula tuchoricensis (Klika, 1891)

Synonyms

• Acanthinula granum Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879: synonym of Thysanophora granum (Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879) (original combination)
• Acanthinula harpa (Say, 1824): synonym of Zoogenetes harpa (Say, 1824) (superseded combination)
• Acanthinula membranacea Jickeli, 1873: synonym of Helix (Acanthinula) steudneri Jickeli, 1874: synonym of Sitala steudneri (Jickeli, 1874) (secondary homonym in Helix; Helix steudneri is a replacement name)
• † Acanthinula nana (A. Braun, 1851): synonym of † Esuinella nana (A. Braun, 1851) (superseded combination)
• Acanthinula perpusilla Möllendorff, 1897: synonym of Anaglyphula perpusilla (Möllendorff, 1897)
• † Acanthinula plicatella (Reuss, 1849): synonym of † Spermodea plicatella (Reuss, 1849) (superseded combination)
• Acanthinula raffrayi (Bourguignat, 1883): synonym of Acanthinula peracanthoda (Bourguignat, 1883) (name based on junior primary homonym)
• † Acanthinula stampiensis [sic]: synonym of † Acanthinula stampinensis (Deshayes, 1863) (misspelling)
• Acanthinula tiluana Möllendorff, 1897: synonym of Anaglyphula tiluana (Möllendorff, 1897) (original combination)

References

• Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 1. Achatinellidae, Amastridae, Orculidae, Strobilopsidae, Spelaeodiscidae, Valloniidae, Cochlicopidae, Pupillidae, Chondrinidae, Pyramidulidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 1-127. Moskva

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• Westerlund, C. A. (1889). Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region (Europa, Kaukasien, Sibirien, Turan, Persien, Kurdistan, Armenien, Mesopotamien, Kleinasien, Syrien, Arabien, Egypten, Tripolis, Tunesien, Algerien und Marocco) lebenden Binnenconchylien. II. Gen. Helix. Berlin: R. Friedländer. pp. 473 + 31
• Caziot, E. (1910). Étude sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la Principauté de Monaco et du Département des Alpes-Maritimes. 559 + (1) (= Errata) + [7 (= Ouvrages scientifiques du même auteur) pp., pl. 1-10. Monaco (Collection de Mémoires et Documents).]