Papuina

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Phylum:Mollusca
Superfamily:Helicoidea
Papuina
Shell of Papuina johnabbasi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Hadrinae
Genus: Papuina
Martens, 1860
Type species
Helix lituus Lesson, 1831
Synonyms
  • Carmerope Iredale, 1941
  • Eugenia Albers, 1860
  • Helix (Papuina) Martens, 1860
  • Insularia Tapparone Canefri, 1883
  • Merope E. von Martens, 1860
  • Molmerope Iredale, 1941
  • Municeps Iredale, 1941
  • Papuina (Municeps) Iredale, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Papuina) Martens, 1860
  • Papuina (Smeatonia) Iredale, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Solmodora) Iredale, 1943· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Solmogada) Iredale, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Solmopesta) Iredale, 1943· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Solmotella) Iredale, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Papuina (Tepomusa) Iredale, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Smeatonia Iredale, 1941
  • Solmodora Iredale, 1941
  • Solmopesta Iredale, 1941
  • Solmotella Iredale, 1941
  • Tepomusa Iredale, 1941
  • Zetemina Iredale, 1941

Papuina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.[1]

(Original description in Latin) The shell is narrowly umbilicate, conical, and somewhat shiny. It is finely striated and banded. Comprising six convex whorls with the body whorl flattened at the base. The aperture is transversely subovate, and the columella is short and oblique. The peristome is expanded, reflexed, and angular, with the columellar margin semi-occulting the umbilicus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Papuina include:

Species brought into synonymy

See also

References

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