Vestia (gastropod)

Vestia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Vestia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Clausiliinae
Tribe: Baleini
Genus: Vestia
Hesse, 1916
Synonyms
  • Uncinaria Vest, 1867 nec Frölich, 1789

Paul Hesse named Vestia as a nomen novum for Uncinaria Vest, 1867, which was preoccupied by its senior homonym Uncinaria Frölich, 1789, a genus of nematode.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Vestia include:

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References
  1. Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 48 (3): 124.
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