Papillifera is a genus of air-breathing land snails with a clausilium, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Alopiinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.[2]

Papillifera
Shells of Papillifera papillaris. Scale bar is in mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Clausilioidei
Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Papillifera
Hartmann, 1842[1]
Synonyms
  • Clausilia (Papillifera) W. Hartmann, 1842 (superseded combination)
  • Papillina Moquin-Tandon, 1856

Species

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Species brought into synonymy
  • Papillifera bidens (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Papillifera papillaris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Papillifera deburghiae (Paulucci, 1878): synonym of Papillifera solida deburghiae (Paulucci, 1878)

References

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  1. ^ Hartmann, J. D. W. 1844. Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten. I. Band. - pp. i-xx [= 1-20], 1-227, Tab. I-XII [= 1-12], I-XII [sic, = 13-24], 25-84. St. Gallen. (Scheitlin & Zollikofer).
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Papillifera W. Hartmann, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996060 on 2021-12-03
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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