Trochoidea (genus)

Trochoidea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.[2] The name means "those that are shaped like a top".

Trochoidea
Five views of a shell of Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)
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Trochoidea

Brown, 1827[1]

(The same name, Trochoidea is currently also used for a superfamily of sea snails with gills, a superfamily that includes the top shells, Trochidae, and the turban shells, Turbinidae.)

Species

Species within the genus Trochoidea include:[3][4]

The following species have been brought into synonymy:

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References

  1. Brown T. 1827. Illustrations of conchology of Great Britain and Ireland drawn from nature. pp. 1-65, Pl. 1-52. Edinburgh. (Lizars).
  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.
  3. "Taxon Details: Trochoidea T. Brown 1827 (subgenus Trochoidea)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  4. Welter Schultes, F. "Species in genus Trochoidea". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 14 August 2014.

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