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Ampelita

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Ampelita
Ampelita duvalii (Petit de la Saussaye, 1844)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Acavidae
Genus: Ampelita
Beck, 1837[1]
Type species
Helix madagascariensis Lamarck, 1816
Synonyms
  • Ampelita (Helix) Linnaeus, 1758 superseded combination
  • Ampelita (Vescona) Emberton, 1990 alternate representation
  • Ampelita (Xystera) Emberton, 1990·alternate representation
  • Helix (Ampelita) H. Beck, 1837

Ampelita is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Ampelita include:

Synonyms
  • Ampelita calypso (L. Pfeiffer, 1862): synonym of Ampelita basizona Mousson, 1882 (name based on junior primary homonym)
  • Ampelita hemioxia Pilsbry, 1894: synonym of Ampelita xystera (L. Pfeiffer, 1841) (junior subjective synonym)
  • Ampelita pauliana Fischer-Piette, 1952: synonym of Ampelita lamarei (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) (junior synonym)
  • Ampelita shavi (E. A. Smith, 1879): synonym of Ampelita xystera (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
  • Ampelita sikorae Ancey, 1890: synonym of Ampelita xystera (L. Pfeiffer, 1841) (junior synonym)
  • Ampelita subnigra Fulton, 1902: synonym of Ampelita omphalodes var. loucoubeensis (Crosse, 1881) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

References

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  1. ^ Beck (1837). Index Moll. Mus. Ch. Fred. (1): 30.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Ampelita H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995409 on 2018-11-19
  3. ^ Emberton K. C. & Griffiths O. L. (2009). "Pulmonate land mollusks from three rainforest transects in northeastern Madagascar: part 1 of 2, with descriptions of 12 new * And one new subspecies (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 138(2): 137-167. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/138/137-167.
  4. ^ Emberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/071-141
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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