Xeroleuca is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the typical snails.[1]
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| Shell of Xeroleuca mograbina (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Subfamily: | Helicellinae |
| Genus: | Xeroleuca Kobelt, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| Helix turcica Holten, 1802 | |
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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
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xeroleuca Kobelt, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996341 on 2021-02-14
- 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.