Pseudiberus

Pseudiberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.

Pseudiberus
Pseudiberus chentingensis shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Bradybaenidae
Genus:
Pseudiberus

Ancey, 1887[1]
Synonyms[2]

Taxonomy

Two subgenera Pseudiberus and Platypetasus were synonymized in the study published in 2006 by Min Wu and Gang Qi, because their genital characters and their distribution range largely overlap.[2]

Distribution

These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.

Species list

Species in the genus Pseudiberus:

  • Pseudiberus anderssoni (Odhner, 1925)
    • Pseudiberus anderssoni depressa (Yen, 1935)
  • Pseudiberus anisopleurus Ancey, 1897
  • Pseudiberus castanopsis (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus causius (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus chentingensis Yen, 1935 - synonym: Pseudiberus cixianensis Chen & Zhang, 2000[2]
    • Pseudiberus chentingensis latispira Yen, 1935[2]
  • Pseudiberus chitralensis (Odhner, 1963)
  • Pseudiberus encaustochilus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus futtereri (Andreae, 1903)
  • Pseudiberus innominatus (Heude, 1885)
    • Pseudiberus innominatus aquilus (H. Adams, 1870)
    • Pseudiberus innominatus duplicatus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus lancasteri (Gude, 1919)
  • Pseudiberus mariellus (H. Adams, 1870)
    • Pseudiberus mariellus submariellus (Pilsbry, 1893)
  • Pseudiberus mataianensis (Nevill, 1878)
  • Pseudiberus obrutschewi (Sturany, 1901)
  • Pseudiberus plectotropis (Martens, 1864)
  • Pseudiberus strophostomus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus tectumsinense (Martens, 1873) - type species of the genus Pseudiberus[1][2]
  • Pseudiberus trochomorphus (Möllendorff, 1899)
    • Pseudiberus trochomorphus microtrochus (Möllendorff, 1887)
    • Pseudiberus trochomorphus wentschuanensis (Blume, 1925)
  • Pseudiberus zenonis (Gredler, 1882)

Ecology

These snails live under old stones and in forests. They eat plants.

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References
  1. Ancey C. F. (1887). "Description of new genera or subgenera of Helicidae". The Conchologists’ Exchange 1(12): 75-76. page 76.
  2. Wu M. & Qi G. (2006). "A taxonomic note on Pseudiberus Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae)". Folia Malacologica 14(1): 25–30. doi:10.12657/folmal.014.003 PDF.
  3. Pilsbry H. A. (1894). Manual of Conchology, In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1894). "Helicidae – Volume VII." (2)9: page 207. Plate 55, fig. 8-9.
  • 月季花中的星辰 (2015-09-26). "蛇蜗牛像薯片" [Pseudiberus species looks like potato chips] (in Chinese). GuoKr. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
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