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Huttonella

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Huttonella
Huttonella bicolor
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Huttonella

Huttonella is a genus of land snails in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Distribution

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Huttonella was originally distributed in Africa and southwestern Asia.[3] Today it is a tropical cosmopolitan genus.[2]

Taxonomy

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The genus has been described as "an artificial, non-monophyletic assemblage of pupiform, elongated streptaxids".[3]

Species

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Species include:

References

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  1. ^ Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Malak. Bl. 2: 174.
  2. ^ a b Sutcharit, C., et al. (2010). The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. ^ a b Simone, L. R. L. (2013). Anatomy of predator snail Huttonella bicolor, an invasive species in Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Pulmonata, Streptaxidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(3), 47-58.