Schileykula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. All of the species and subspecies in this genus inhabit Turkey, with the exception of the subspecies Schileykula scyphus crass (Pilsbry, 1922), which lives in Iran.

Schileykula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Orculidae
Genus: Schileykula
Gittenberger, 1983[1]

Species belonging to the genera Schileykula and Orculella are indistinguishable based on shell characters only. They differ however in the genitalia, primarily in the presence (Orculella) or absence (Schileykula) of a penial appendix.[2] In Sch. batumensis and Sch. trapezensis the reproductive isolation is incomplete.[3]

Species and subspecies

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Species and subspecies belonging to Schileykula[2][4] include:

References

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  1. ^ Gittenberger E. (1983). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea. IX. Nochmals über Orculidae.". Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (C) 86(3): 325-342.
  2. ^ a b Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)" (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)"]. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 125 (1/2): 1-86.
  3. ^ Neubert, Eike (1993). "Contribution to the knowledge of the Orculinae from Northeastern Turkey (Mollusca: Stylommatophora: Orculidae)". Zoology in the Middle East. 8: 53–67. doi:10.1080/09397140.1993.10637637.
  4. ^ Páll-Gergely, Barna (2010). "Description of the genital structure of four Turkish orculids (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orculidae)". Journal of Conchology. 40 (4): 471–476.
  5. ^ Gittenberger, E.; Menkhorst, H.P.M.G. (1993). "Schileykula aculeata spec, nov., a conspicuous species from Turkey with spiny ribs on its shell (Mollusca: Gastropoda Pulmonata: Orculidae". Zoologische Mededelingen. 67: 341–343.
  6. ^ Páll-Gergely, Barna (2010). "New and little-known land snails from Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zoology in the Middle East. 50: 89–94. doi:10.1080/09397140.2010.10638416.