Petriola is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Petriolinae of the family Achatinidae.[1]

Petriola
Shell of Petriola marmorea (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Genus: Petriola
Dall, 1905
Type species
Achatina marmorea Reeve, 1850
Synonyms
  • Bocageia (Petriola) Dall, 1905
  • Trichodina Ancey, 1888 (invalid: junior homonym of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1832 [Foraminifera]; see Petriola)

Species

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References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petriola Dall, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995633 on 2022-01-02
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