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.
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Clausiliidae |
Subfamily: | Clausiliinae |
Tribe: | Baleini |
Genus: | Vestia Hesse, 1916 |
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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
- Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 48 (3): 124.
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