Leiostyla is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lauriidae.[2][3][4]

Leiostyla
Two views of three shells of Leiostyla anglica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Lauriidae
Genus: Leiostyla
R. T. Lowe, 1852[1]
Type species
Pupa (Leiostyla) vincta R. T. Lowe, 1852
Synonyms
  • Alvearella R. T. Lowe, 1852
  • Caucasica Caziot & Margier, 1909 (invalid; not O. Boettger, 1877)
  • Caucasipupa Pilsbry, 1926
  • Charadrobia Albers, 1854
  • Eryma Albers, 1854
  • Euxinolauria Lindholm, 1924 (junior synonym)
  • Lauria (Euxinolauria) Lindholm, 1924 (original rank)
  • Lauria (Leiostyla) R. T. Lowe, 1852
  • Leiostyla (Azoripupa) Pilsbry, 1923· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Craticula) R. T. Lowe, 1852· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Euxinolauria) Lindholm, 1924 (junior synonym)
  • Leiostyla (Leiostyla) R. T. Lowe, 1852· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Mastula) R. T. Lowe, 1852· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Matschachelia) Schileyko, 1975· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Neolauria) Schileyko, 1975· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Scarabella) R. T. Lowe, 1855· accepted, alternate representation
  • Leiostyla (Wollastonula) Pilsbry, 1922· accepted, alternate representation
  • Liostyla E. von Martens, 1860
  • Pupa (Leiostyla) R. T. Lowe, 1852 (original rank)
  • Pupa (Scarabella) R. T. Lowe, 1855 (basionym)
  • Vertigo (Scarabella) R. T. Lowe, 1855

The genus Leiostyla was previously placed in the subfamily Lauriinae, within the family Pupillidae.

Species

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Species in the genus Leiostyla include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Leiostyla adolfi Pokryszko, 1991: synonym of Leiostyla paulinae (Lindholm, 1913) (junior synonym)

References

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  1. ^ Lowe R. T. 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9 (50): 112-120, 275-279. London.
  2. ^ Cucherat X. & Demuynck S. Mai 2006. Catalogue annoté des Gastéropodes terrestres (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de la région Nord - Pas-de-Calais. MalaCo, Bulletin de la Malacologie Continentale Française, (2) Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine: page 48. [1]
  3. ^ Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. 2001 Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe. München: Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, 267 pp.
  4. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leiostyla R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=842729 on 2021-04-29
  • Lindholm, W. A. (1924). A revised systematic list of the genera of the Clausiliidae, recent and fossil, with their subdivisions, synonymy, and types. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 16 (1)
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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