Ponentina is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.[1][2] the hairy snails and their allies.

Ponentina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Ponentina
Hesse, 1921
Synonyms[1]
  • Fruticicola (Ponentina) P. Hesse, 1921 (original rank)
  • Henkia E. Gittenberger, 2012 (junior synonym)

Species

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Species within this genus include:

Taxon inquirendum
  • Ponentina ponsonbyana (Pilsbry, 1895)

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996338 on 2021-02-25
  2. ^ Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25485783.
  • AnimalBase info at: [1]
  • Hesse, P. (1921). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 53 (1/2): 55–83. Frankfurt am Main
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
  • Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A. (2012). A review of the genus Ponentina Hesse 1921 with descriptions of seven new species from Portugal and Spain (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Journal of Conchology. 41(2), 173-238
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