Vespericola
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| Drawing: three views of a shell of Vespericola columbiana from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
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| Photograph: three views of a shell of Vespericola armigera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Genus: | Vespericola Pilsbry, 1939 |
Vespericola is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
Habitat
[edit]These snails are found along the Pacific Coast of North America, from southern Alaska and British Columbia to California.
Shell description
[edit]The shells of these small to medium, globose or depressed globose snails are usually some shade of brown, sometimes without apertural teeth and sometimes with a single tooth on the parietal wall. Small periostracal hairs may be observed on the shell surface of many specimens, but the shells otherwise resemble those of Praticolella or Mesodon.[2]
Anatomy
[edit]According to Pilsbry (1940), Vespericola "differs from all other Polygyridae by the possession of a well-developed though rather short verge, and by the peculiar shape of the epiphallus".[3]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Vespericola include:[2][4]
- Vespericola armigera (Ancey, 1881) - Santa Cruz hesperian
- Vespericola columbiana (I. Lea, 1838) - northwest hesperian
- Vespericola columbiana depressa (Pilsbry & Henderson, 1936)
- Vespericola columbiana latilabrum Pilsbry, 1940
- Vespericola eritrichius (Berry, 1939) - velvet hesperian
- Vespericola hapla (Berry, 1933) - Butte Creek hesperian
- Vespericola karokorum Talmadge, 1962 - Karok hesperian
- Vespericola klamathicus Roth & W. B. Miller, 1995 - Klamath hesperia
- Vespericola marinensis Roth & W. B. Miller, 1993 - Marin hesperian
- Vespericola megasoma (Pilsbry, 1928) - redwood hesperian
- Vespericola megasoma euthales (Berry, 1939)
- Vespericola oria (Berry, 1933) - El Dorado hesperian
- Vespericola pilosa (Henderson, 1928) - brushfield hesperian
- Vespericola pinicola (Berry, 1916) - Monterey hesperian
- Vespericola pressleyi Roth, 1985 - Big Bar hesperian
- Vespericola rothi Cordero & W. B. Miller, 1995 - Ellery Creek hesperian
- Vespericola scotti Cordero & W. B. Miller, 1995 - Benson Gulch hesperian
- Vespericola shasta (Berry, 1921) - Shasta hesperian
- Vespericola sierrana (Berry, 1921) - Siskiyou hesperian
References
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- ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 13a.
- ^ a b Pilsbry, Henry A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 892-912.
- ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 892.
- ^ [1] Vespericola at ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System); accessed 5 Feb. 2008.