Pyrenaearia

Pyrenaearia
Pyrenaearia cantabrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Pyrenaearia Hesse, 1921
Synonyms
Cantabricana Fagot, 1891 · unaccepted Carascalensiana Fagot, 1885

Pyrenaearia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Leptaxinae of the family Hygromiidae, the harry snails and their allies.

These snails live in limestone areas in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern Europe.

Species

Species in the genus Pyrenaearia:

• Pyrenaearia cantabrica (Hidalgo, 1873)
• Pyrenaearia carascalensis (Férussac, 1821) - type species
• Pyrenaearia carascalopsis (Bourguignat in Fagot, 1884)
• Pyrenaearia cotiellae (Fagot, 1906)
• Pyrenaearia daanidentata Raven, 1988
• Pyrenaearia guillenae Caro, Madeira & Gómez-Moliner, 2019
• Pyrenaearia molae Haas, 1924
• Pyrenaearia navasi (Fagot, 1907)
• Pyrenaearia organiaca (Fagot, 1905)
• Pyrenaearia parva Ortiz de Zárate, 1956

Synonyms

• Pyrenaearia oberthueri (Ancey, 1884): synonym of Pyrenaearia cantabrica (Hidalgo, 1873)
• Pyrenaearia poncebensis Ortiz de Zárate, 1956: synonym of Pyrenaearia cantabrica poncebensis Ortiz de Zárate López, 1956
• Pyrenaearia schaufussii (Kobelt, 1876): synonym of Pyrenaearia cantabrica schaufussi (Kobelt, 1876) (not assessed)
• Pyrenaearia velascoi (Hidalgo, 1867): synonym of Pyrenaearia carascalensis (Michaud, 1831)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

Further reading

• Hesse, P. (1921). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 53 (1/2): 55–83. Frankfurt am Main
• Elejalde M. A., Madeira M. J., Prieto C. E., Backeljau T., Gómez-Moliner B. J. (July 2009) "Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of the Land Snail Genus Pyrenaearia (Gastropoda, Helicoidea)". American Malacological Bulletin 27(1-2): 69–81. doi:10.4003/006.027.0206

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