Costigo

Costigo
Shell of Costigo desmazuresi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Vertiginidae
Genus:	Costigo O. Boettger, 1891
Type species
Vertigo saparuana Boettger, 1891
Synonyms
Vertigo (Costigo) O. Boettger, 1891 (original rank)

Costigo is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Species

Species within the genus Costigo include:

• Costigo calamianica (Möllendorff, 1898)
• Costigo desmazuresi (Crosse, 1873)
• Costigo saparuana (Boettger, 1891)

Species brought into synonymy

• Costigo borbonica (H. Adams, 1868): synonym of Gibbulinopsis pupula (Deshayes, 1863) (junior synonym)
• Costigo moleculina van Benthem Jutting, 1940: synonym of Pupisoma moleculina (van Benthem Jutting, 1940) (original combination)
• Costigo pulvisculum (Issel, 1874): synonym of Pupisoma pulvisculum (Issel, 1874) (superseded combination)

References

• Crosse, H., 1873. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 136–144
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

External links

• Media related to Costigo at Wikimedia Commons
• Boettger, O. (1891). Ad. Strubell´s Konchylien aus Java II und von den Molukken. Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. 1891: 241–318, pl. 3-4

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