Laminella

Laminella
Shell of Laminella citrina helvina (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Amastridae Gulick, 1873
Genus:	Laminella Pfeiffer, 1854
Synonyms
Achatinella (Laminella) L. Pfeiffer, 1854 superseded rank Amastra (Laminella) L. Pfeiffer, 1854 (unaccepted combination) Helicter (Laminella) L. Pfeiffer, 1854 superseded rank

Laminella is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amastridae.

Species

Species within the genus Laminella include:

• Laminella alexandri (Newcomb, 1865)
• Laminella aspera Baldwin 1908
• Laminella bulbosa (Gulick, 1858)
• Laminella citrina (L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
• Laminella concinna (Newcomb, 1854)
• Laminella depicta (Baldwin, 1895)
• Laminella gravida (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
• Laminella kuhnsi (C. M. Cooke, 1908)
• Laminella picta (Mighels, 1845)
• Laminella remyi (Newcomb, 1855)
• Laminella sanguinea (Newcomb, 1854)
• Laminella straminea (Reeve, 1850)
• Laminella tetrao (Newcomb, 1855)
• Laminella venusta (Mighels, 1845)

Synonyms

• Laminella duoplicata Baldwin, 1908: synonym of Laminella alexandri duoplicata Baldwin, 1908 (superseded combination)
• Laminella semivenulata Borcherding, 1906: synonym of Laminella citrina (L. Pfeiffer, 1848) (junior subjective synonym)

References

• Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the Native Land and Freshwater Molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi + 248 pp. [3 June]. Leiden (Backhuys Publishers).
• 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

External links

• Pfeiffer, L. (1854). Skizze einer Monographie der Gattung Achatinella Swains. Malakozoologische Blätter. 1(4): 112-144
• Binney, W. G. (1875). On the genitalia, jaw and lingual dentition of certain species of Pulmonata (with a note on the classification on the Achatinellae, by Thomas Bland). Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 11: 166-196 plates 12-18
• Nomenclator Zoologicus info

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