Sheldonia
Genus of gastropods
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Sheldonia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae. Sheldonia is the type genus of the subfamily Sheldoniinae.[2]
| Sheldonia | |
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| Montane tail-wagger snail, Sheldonia fuscicolor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Urocyclidae |
| Genus: | Sheldonia Ancey, 1887[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Peltatus Godwin-Austen, 1908 | |
Distribution
The distribution of this genus includes South Africa.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Sheldonia include:
- Sheldonia aloicola (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890)
- Sheldonia asthenes (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1907)
- Sheldonia caledonensis (Godwin-Austen, 1912)
- Sheldonia capsula (W. H. Benson, 1864)
- Sheldonia cotyledonis (W. H. Benson, 1850)
- Sheldonia crawfordi (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890)
- Sheldonia fingolandensis D. G. Herbert, 2017
- Sheldonia hudsoniae (W. H. Benson, 1864)
- Sheldonia monsmaripi D. G. Herbert, 2016
- Sheldonia natalensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Sheldonia phytostylus (W. H. Benson, 1864)
- Sheldonia trotteriana (W. H. Benson, 1848)
- Sheldonia wolkbergensis D. G. Herbert, 2016
- Synonyms
- Sheldonia fuscicolor (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892):[3] synonym of Microkerkus fuscicolor (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)
- Sheldonia puzeyi Connolly, 1939:[4] synonym of Kerkophorus puzeyi (Connolly, 1939) (original combination)
- Sheldonia poeppigiiL. Pfeiffer, 1846): synonym of Kerkophorus poeppigii (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
