Ennea (gastropod)

Ennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Ennea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Enneinae
Genus:
Ennea

Type species
Pupa elegantula L. Pfeiffer, 1846
Synonyms
  • Carychiopsis E. von Martens, 1895
  • Ennea (Carychiopsis) E. von Martens, 1895
  • Ennea (Enneastrum) L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Enneastrum L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Pupa (Ennea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank)

Ennea is the type genus of the subfamily Enneinae.[3]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Ennea is Afrotropical[2] and includes:

Species

Species within the genus Ennea include:

  • Ennea arthuri Preston, 1913 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Ennea cylindracea E.A. Smith, 1897 (taxon inquirendum)

Species brought into synonymy:

  • Ennea aliena Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: synonym of Indoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) accepted as Sinoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) (original combination)
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References
  1. Adams (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 171.
  2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
  • Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 231-234. page 233.
  • Preston H. B. (1914). "Characters of three new species of Ennea from southern Nigeria". Proceedings of the Malacological Society, London 11: 134-136.


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