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Pseudiberus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Bradybaenidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Helicoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Pseudiberus

Similar
  
Aegista, Bradybaena, Bradybaenidae, Euhadra, Asian trampsnail

Pseudiberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.

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Taxonomy

Two subgenera Pseudiberus and Platypetasus were synonymized in the study published in 2006 by Min Wu and Gang Qi, because their genital characters and their distribution range largely overlap.

Distribution

These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.

Species list

Species in the genus Pseudiberus:

  • Pseudiberus anderssoni (Odhner, 1925)
  • Pseudiberus anderssoni depressa (Yen, 1935)
  • Pseudiberus anisopleurus Ancey, 1897
  • Pseudiberus castanopsis (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus causius (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus chentingensis Yen, 1935 - synonym: Pseudiberus cixianensis Chen & Zhang, 2000
  • Pseudiberus chentingensis latispira Yen, 1935
  • Pseudiberus chitralensis (Odhner, 1963)
  • Pseudiberus encaustochilus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus futtereri (Andreae, 1903)
  • Pseudiberus innominatus (Heude, 1885)
  • Pseudiberus innominatus aquilus (H. Adams, 1870)
  • Pseudiberus innominatus duplicatus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus lancasteri (Gude, 1919)
  • Pseudiberus mariellus (H. Adams, 1870)
  • Pseudiberus mariellus submariellus (Pilsbry, 1893)
  • Pseudiberus mataianensis (Nevill, 1878)
  • Pseudiberus obrutschewi (Sturany, 1901)
  • Pseudiberus plectotropis (Martens, 1864)
  • Pseudiberus strophostomus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus tectumsinense (Martens, 1873) - type species of the genus Pseudiberus
  • Pseudiberus trochomorphus (Möllendorff, 1899)
  • Pseudiberus trochomorphus microtrochus (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Pseudiberus trochomorphus wentschuanensis (Blume, 1925)
  • Pseudiberus zenonis (Gredler, 1882)
  • Ecology

    These snails live under old stones and in forests. They eat plants.

    References

    Pseudiberus Wikipedia