Draparnaudia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Partuloidea.

Draparnaudia
Draparnaudia singularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Family:
Draparnaudiidae

Solem, 1962[1]
Genus:
Draparnaudia

Diversity[3]
6 species

Draparnaudia is the only genus in the family Draparnaudiidae.

Both the family name and the genus name of these snails were created to honor the 18th century French malacologist Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud.

Distribution edit

This genus is endemic to New Caledonia, in Melanesia and - probably introduced - to Vanuatu.

Taxonomy edit

The family Draparnaudiidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Draparnaudia is the type genus of the family Draparnaudiidae.[4]

Draparnaudiidae consists of one genus with six species:[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Solem A. (1962) "Notes on, and descriptions of new Hebridean land snails". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 9(5): 215-247. page 219.
  2. ^ Montrouzier (1859). J. Conchyliol. 7: 288.
  3. ^ a b Tillier S. & Mordan P. B. (1995). "The anatomy and systematics of the New Caledonian land snail genus Draparnaudia Montrouzier, 1859 (Pulmonata: Orthurethra)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113(1): 47-91, London 1994 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00336.x.
  4. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.