Ryssota

Ryssota
Five views of a shell of muffin snail Ryssota ovum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Trochomorphoidea
Family:	Chronidae
Genus:	Ryssota Albers, 1850
Type species
Helix ovum Valenciennes, 1827
Synonyms
Nanina (Ryssota) Albers, 1850 (original rank) Rhysota Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation of the original name) Rhysota (Rhysota) Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation to original name) Rhyssota auct. (invalid: unjustified emendation of the original name)

Ryssota is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Chronidae.

Species

Species within the genus Ryssota include:

• Ryssota antoni (Semper, 1870)
• Ryssota dvitija (O. Semper, 1866)
• Ryssota gervaisii (Dubrueil, 1867)
• Ryssota mororum Pilsbry, 1924
• Ryssota mulleri (Pfeiffer,1854)
• Ryssota otaheitana (Férussac, 1820)
• Ryssota sagittifera (L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
• Ryssota sauli Bartsch, 1938
• Ryssota uranus (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)
• Ryssota webbi Bartsch, 1938

Species brought into synonymy

• Ryssota balerana (Bartsch, 1939): synonym of Lamarckiella balerana (Bartsch, 1939) (original combination)
• Ryssota lamarckiana (Lea, 1853): synonym of Lamarckiella stolephora lamarckiana (I. Lea, 1840) (superseded combination)
• Ryssota maxima (Pfeiffer, 1853): synonym of Pararyssota maxima (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) (superseded combination)
• Ryssota ovum (Valenciennes, 1827): synonym of Ryssota otaheitana ovum (Valenciennes, 1827)
• Ryssota oweniana (Pfeiffer, 1853): synonym of Lamarckiella oweniana (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) (superseded combination)
• Ryssota pachystoma (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841): synonym of Trukrhysa pachystoma (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) (superseded combination)
• Ryssota porphyria (Pfeiffer, 1854): synonym of Lamarckiella porphyria (L. Pfeiffer, 1842) (superseded combination)
• Ryssota quadrasi (Hidalgo, 1890): synonym of Pararyssota quadrasi (Hidalgo, 1887) (superseded combination)
• Ryssota rhea (Pfeiffer, 1853): synonym of Ryssota otaheitana rhea (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Ryssota zeus (Jonas, 1842): synonym of Lamarckiella zeus (Jonas, 1843) (superseded combination)

References

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

External links

• Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp.
• Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i–xviii, 1–359. Leipzig: Engelman