Revision of Massylaea Moellendorff, 1898 (Stylommatophora, Helicidae)
Author
Bouaziz-Yahiatene, Houria
Author
Pfarrer, Beat
Author
Medjdoub-Bensaad, Ferroudja
Author
Eike Neubert,
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ZooKeys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.694.15001
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.694.15001
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Genus
Massylaea
Moellendorff
, 1898
Massylaea
Moellendorff
, 1908; Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 30 (9/10): 120.
Vermiculatiana
Caziot, 1908;
Memoires
de la
Societe
Zoologique de France 20 (4): 439. Type species (by monotypy):
Helix vermiculata
O.F.
Mueller
, 1774.
Eobania
Hesse, 1913; Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 45(1): 13. Type species (by monotypy):
Helix vermiculata
O.F.
Mueller
, 1774.
Type species.
Helix massylaea
Morelet, 1851 by tautonymy.
Diagnosis.
Large shells, spire flat to considerably raised, with or without a malleate surface structure, aperture without or only with a small labial ridge; penial chamber with a solid
"false"
penial papilla, epiphallus entering the penial chamber through a laterally situated pore, glandulae mucosae with many subdivided tubules, diverticulum very long.