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Columella (genus)

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Columella
Six shells of Columella edentula, scale bar in mm
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Truncatellinidae
Genus: Columella
Westerlund, 1878[1]
Type species
Pupa inornata Michaud, 1831
Synonyms[2]
  • Edentulina Clessin, 1876
  • Paludinella R. T. Lowe, 1852

Columella is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Truncatellinidae, the whorl snails and allies. [2]

Taxonomy

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Columella is commonly classified within the Vertiginidae. However, as shown by Nekola & Coles (2016), the genus is not that closely related to the Vertiginidae, but may rather be affiliated with the Chondrinidae or form a pupilloid family of its own. A systematic revision is pending.[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Columella include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Columella inornata (Michaud, 1831): synonym of Columella edentula (Draparnaud, 1805) (junior synonym)
  • Columella ninagongonis Pilsbry, 1935: synonym of Truncatellina ninagongonis (Pilsbry, 1935) (original combination)
  • Columella tridentata A. B. Leonard, 1946: synonym of Gastrocopta ruidosensis (Cockerell, 1899)

References

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  1. ^ Westerlund C. A. (1876-1878). Fauna Europæa molluscorum extramarinorum. Prodromus. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium generum et specierum horum animalium in Europa viventium et hodie cognitarum. pp. 1-320. Lundae. (Berlingia).
  2. ^ a b c MolluscaBase eds. (2020). "Columella". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)