Corilla

Corilla
Corilla erronea shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Plectopyloidea
Family:	Corillidae Pilsbry, 1905[1]
Genus:	Corilla H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[2]
Diversity
12 species

Corilla is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.^[3]

Corilla is the only genus in the family Corillidae (cf. Schileyko (1999)).^[4] This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Species

Species in the genus Corilla include:

• Corilla anax Benson, 1865
• Corilla beddomeae (Hanley & Theobald, 1875)
• Corilla carabinata (Férussac, 1821)
• Corilla coletti Sykes, 1897
• Corilla erronea (Albers, 1853) - including Corilla erronea var. eronella Gude, 1896
• Corilla fryae Gude, 1896
• Corilla gudei Sykes, 1897
• Corilla hinidunensis Nevill, 1871 - synonyms: Corilla charpentieri Pfeiffer, 1853; Corrila adamsi Gude, 1914
• Corilla humberti (Brot, 1864)
• Corilla lesleyae Barnacle, 1956
• Corilla odontophora Benson, 1865
• Corilla rivolii (Deshayes, 1830) - type species

References

1. Pilsbry H. A. (1905). "Anatomical and systematic notes on Dorcasia, Trigonephrus, n. gen., Corilla, Thersites, and Chloritis". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6(5): 286–291. page 289.
2. Adams H. & Adams A. (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 208.
3. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1-2).
4. Schileyko A. A. (1999) "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocylcidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2(4): 437-564, Moscow.

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