Costigo is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.[1]
| Costigo | |
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| Shell of Costigo desmazuresi (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Genus: | Costigo O. Boettger, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| Vertigo saparuana Boettger, 1891 | |
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Vertigo (Costigo) O. Boettger, 1891 (original rank) | |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Costigo include:
- Costigo calamianica (Möllendorff, 1898)
- Costigo desmazuresi (Crosse, 1873)
- Costigo saparuana (Boettger, 1891)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Costigo borbonica (H. Adams, 1868): synonym of Gibbulinopsis pupula (Deshayes, 1863) (junior synonym)
- Costigo moleculina van Benthem Jutting, 1940: synonym of Pupisoma moleculina (van Benthem Jutting, 1940) (original combination)
- Costigo pulvisculum (Issel, 1874): synonym of Pupisoma pulvisculum (Issel, 1874) (superseded combination)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Costigo O. Boettger, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875182 on 22 September 2020
- Crosse, H., 1873. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 136–144
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017
External links
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Media related to Costigo at Wikimedia Commons- Boettger, O. (1891). Ad. Strubell´s Konchylien aus Java II und von den Molukken. Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. 1891: 241–318, pl. 3-4
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