Orexana

Genus of snail

Orexana
Apertural view of the shell of Orexana ultima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Orexana
Chueca et al., 2018

Orexana[1] is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.[1]

It is distributed along west coast of Morocco and Canary Islands.

Species

Species within the genus Orexana include:

  • Orexana ultima (Mousson, 1872)

References

  1. ^ a b Chueca, Luis J.; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.; Madeira, María José; Pfenninger, Markus (January 2018). "Molecular phylogeny of Candidula (Geomitridae) land snails inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers reveals the polyphyly of the genus". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118: 357–368. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.022. PMID 29107619.
Taxon identifiers
Orexana
  • Wikidata: Q65086278
  • CoL: 7PBC9
  • IRMNG: 11909318


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