Praticolella
Genus of gastropods
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Praticolella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
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| Three views of a shell of Praticolella berlandieriana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Subfamily: | Polygyrinae |
| Genus: | Praticolella von Martens, 1892 |
This genus comprises about 15[citation needed] species of small snails with semi-globose shells.
Shell description
Distribution
Species of Praticolella may be found from Nicaragua and eastern Mexico, into the southeastern United States, from Texas to North Carolina.[1]
Species
This genus includes the following species and subspecies:[1][2][3][4][5]
- Praticolella ampla (Pfeiffer, 1866)
- Praticolella bakeri Vanatta, 1915
- Praticolella berlandieriana (Moricand, 1833)
- Praticolella campi Clapp & Ferriss, 1919
- Praticolella candida Hubricht, 1983
- Praticolella griseola (Pfeiffer, 1841)
- Praticolella jejuna (Say, 1821)
- Praticolella lawae (Lewis, 1874)
- Praticolella martensiana (Pilsbry, 1907)
- Praticolella mobiliana (Lea, 1841)
- Praticolella pachyloma (Menke, 1847)
- Praticolella strebeliana Pilsbry, 1899
- Praticolella taeniata Pilsbry, 1940
- Praticolella trimatris Hubricht, 1983