Tortulosa

Tortulosa
Shell of Tortulosa tortuosa (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Pupinidae
Genus:	Tortulosa Gray, 1847
Type species
Pupa tortuosa Gray, 1825
Synonyms
Cataulus L. Pfeiffer, 1851 Perlisia Tomlin, 1948 Tortulosa (Eucataulus) Kobelt, 1902 Tortulosa (Tortulosa) Gray, 1847

Tortulosa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupinidae.

These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.

34 species are recognized.

Species

• Tortulosa albescens (Blanford, 1880)
• Tortulosa aurea (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa austeniana (Benson 1853)
• Tortulosa barnaclei Tomlin 1928
• Tortulosa blanfordi (Dohrn, 1862)
• Tortulosa calcadensis (Blanford, 1869)
• Tortulosa colletti (Sykes, 1898)
• Tortulosa congener (Sykes, 1905)
• Tortulosa connectens (Fulton, 1903)
• Tortulosa costulata (Blanford, 1880)
• Tortulosa cumingi (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa decora (Benson, 1853)
• Tortulosa duplicate (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa eurytrema (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa greeni (Sykes, 1899)
• Tortulosa haemastoma (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa hartleyi Tomlin 1928
• Tortulosa layardi (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa leucocheilus (A. Adams & Sowerby, 1866)
• Tortulosa marginata (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa naggsi Raheem & S. Schneider, 2017 - extinct
• Tortulosa nevilli (Sykes, 1898)
• Tortulosa nietneri (Nevill, 1871)
• Tortulosa presoni (Sykes, 1905)
• Tortulosa pyramidata (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa recurvata (Pfeiffer, 1862)
• Tortulosa rugosa (Fulton, 1903)
• Tortulosa smithi (Sykes, 1905)
• Tortulosa sykesi (Fulton, 1903)
• Tortulosa templemani (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa thwaitesi (Pfeiffer 1855)
• Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825)

Synonyms

• Tortulosa huberi Thach, 2018: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825) (junior subjective synonym)
• Tortulosa schileykoi Thach & F. Huber, 2018: synonym of Tortulosa tortuosa (Gray, 1825) (junior subjective synonym)

References

• Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1948). New Malay land-shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 27: 224–225, 1 plate.

External links

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• Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
• Pfeiffer, L. (1851-1852). Conspectus Cyclostomaceorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 8(10): 145–160 [December 1851]; 8(11): 161–176
• Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map