Sinistrexcisa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Ptychotrematinae
Genus:
Sinistrexcisa

De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999[1]
Diversity[1]
4 species

Sinistrexcisa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[1][2]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Sinistrexcisa includes:

Description

A spermatophore was observed in Sinistrexcisa for the first time among the Streptaxidae in 1999.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Sinistrexcisa include:

  • Sinistrexcisa cameruniae De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - type species, from Southwest Cameroon[1]
  • Sinistrexcisa iradieri De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - from Equatorial Guinea[1]
  • Sinistrexcisa cogoensis De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - from Equatorial Guinea[1]
  • Sinistrexcisa fang De Winter, Gomez & Prieto, 1999 - from Equatorial Guinea[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 De Winter A. J., Gomez B. J. & Prieto C. E.(1999). "Sinistrexcisa, a New Genus of Land Snail from Central West Africa with Four New Species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 65(2): 209-221. doi:10.1093/mollus/65.2.209. page 209.
  2. 1 2 3 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (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.
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