Pittieria

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Spiraxidae Rank Genus		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Testacelloidea Subfamily Euglandininae

Similar Euglandina, Vochysiaceae, Stylommatophora

Pittieria is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Pittieria extends from Central Mexico to northern Panama.

Species in the genus Pittieria include:

Subgenus Pittieria Von Martens, 1901 include two species:

Pittieria bicolor Von Martens, 1901 - type species

Pittieria pittieri (Von Martens, 1901)

Subgenus Laeviglandina Pilsbry, 1908 include nine species:

Pittieria aurantiaca (Angas, 1879)

Pittieria broctontomlini (Pilsbry, 1926)

Pittieria chiriquiensis (Da Costa, 1900)

Pittieria decidua (Pfeiffer, 1861)

Pittieria izabellina (Pfeiffer, 1846)

Pittieria lanceolata (Von Martens, 1891)

Pittieria obtusa (Pfeiffer, 1844)

Pittieria tryoniana Pilsbry, 1908

Pittieria underwoodi (Fulton, 1897)

Subgenus Shuttleworthia H. B. Baker, 1941 include three species:

Pittieria ambigua (Pfeiffer, 1856)

Pittieria arborea H. B. Baker, 1941

Pittieria difficilis (Crosse and Fischer, 1869)

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