Xeroleuca

Xeroleuca
Shell of Xeroleuca mograbina (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Geomitridae
Subfamily:	Helicellinae
Genus:	Xeroleuca Kobelt, 1877
Type species
Helix turcica Holten, 1802
Synonyms
Helix (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877 Xerophila (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877 (superseded generic combination)

Xeroleuca is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the typical snails.

It contains the following species:

• Xeroleuca degenerans (Mousson, 1873)
• Xeroleuca mogadorensis (Bourguignat, 1863)
• Xeroleuca mograbina (Morelet, 1852)
• Xeroleuca privatiana (Pallary, 1918)
• Xeroleuca renati (Dautzenberg, 1894)
• Xeroleuca turcica (Holten, 1802)

Taxa inquirenda

• Xeroleuca babelis Pallary, 1920 (taxon inquirendum)
• Xeroleuca brulardi Pallary, 1913 (taxon inquirendum)
• Xeroleuca chabertiana Pallary, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
• Xeroleuca rebiana Pallary, 1913

References

• Morelet, A., 1852. Testa nova Algeriensa. Coquilles nouvelles d'Algérie. Journal de Conchyliologie 3: 61-64
• Kobelt, W. (1877). Zusätze und Berichtigungen zu meinem Catalog der im europäischen Faunengebiete lebenden Binnenconchylien. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 4: 14–45.
• Pallary, P. (1929). Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie. Mémoires présentés a l'Institut d'Égypte, 12: 1-43, pl. 1–3. Le Caire.
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

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• Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes, vol. 4. Paris: Levrault. vii + 439 pp., pls 1-12
• Bouaziz-Yahiatene, H., Inäbnit, T., Medjdoub-Bensaad, F., Colomba, M. S., Sparacio, I., Gregorini, A., Liberto, F. & Neubert, E. (2019). Revisited – the species of Tweeting vineyard snails, genus Cantareus Risso, 1826 (Stylommatophora, Helicidae, Helicinae, Otalini). ZooKeys. 876: 1-26.

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