Pontophaedusella is a monotypic 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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| Genus: | Pontophaedusella Nordsieck, H., 1994[1]
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Species
editThe sole species belonging to this genus is Pontophaedusella offenses Nordsieck 1994. This species is known only from the type locality ("Prov. Trabzon, FF 03, 2 km SW Of"). The anatomy of Pontophaedusella ofensis was described by Szekeres (1998).[2]
References
edit- ^ Nordsieck, H. (1994). "Türkische Clausiliidae, II: Neue Taxa der Unterfamilien Serrulininae und Mentissoideinae in Anatolien (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)"". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 5131–36, Stuttgart.
- ^ Szekeres, Miklós (1998). "New and little known Clausiliidae (Gastropoda Pulmonata) from eastern Turkey". Basteria. 62: 169–173.
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