Orpiella

Genus of gastropods

Orpiella
Shell of Orpiella keppelli (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Trochomorphidae
Genus: Orpiella
L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855
Type species
Helix (Nanina) scorpio Gould, 1846
Synonyms
  • Aulacopus Pfeffer, 1878
  • Eurypus C. Semper, 1870 (Invalid: junior homonym of Eurypus Kirby, 1819 [Coleoptera], Fretum Sykes, 1900 is a replacement name)
  • Fretum Sykes, 1900
  • Kalendyma Gude, 1911 (junior synonym)
  • Orpiella (Fijia) Gude, 1913· accepted, alternate representation
  • Orpiella (Halozonites) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Orpiella (Kalendyma) Gude, 1911 (junior synonym)
  • Orpiella (Orpiella) L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855· accepted, alternate representation
  • Orpiella (Owaraha) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Owaraha H. B. Baker, 1941

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

Species

Species within the genus Orpiella include:

  • Orpiella artensis (Souverbie, 1859)
  • Orpiella compluviata (Cox, 1871)
  • Orpiella concava (Clapp, 1923)
  • Orpiella cookensis (Gude, 1905)
  • Orpiella desmazuresi (Crosse, 1872)
  • Orpiella fragillima (Mousson, 1870)
  • Orpiella keppelli (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
  • Orpiella kuntzi Solem, 1960
  • Orpiella lepida (Gude, 1913)
  • Orpiella malaitaensis (Clapp, 1923)
  • Orpiella manni (Clapp, 1923)
  • Orpiella pamuaensis (Clapp, 1923)
  • Orpiella proxima H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Orpiella retardata (Cox, 1870)
  • Orpiella salomonis (Vanatta, 1930)
  • Orpiella schmeltziana (Garrett, 1887)
  • Orpiella scorpio (Gould, 1846)
  • Orpiella smithi (Clapp, 1923)
  • Orpiella solidiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  • Orpiella sororum (Clapp, 1923)
  • Orpiella tenella (Garrett, 1872)
  • Orpiella treasuryensis (Tryon, 1886)
  • Orpiella woodwardi (Godwin-Austen, 1903)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Orpiella casca (Gould, 1852): synonym of Orpiella scorpio (Gould, 1846) (junior synonym)
  • Orpiella godeffroyana (Garrett, 1872): synonym of Irenella godeffroyana (Garrett, 1872) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella hoyti (Garrett, 1872): synonym of Irenella hoyti (Garrett, 1872) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella macgillivrayi (Gude, 1913): synonym of Fijia macgillivrayi Gude, 1913 (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella nitidissima (E. A. Smith, 1885): synonym of Orpiella treasuryensis (Tryon, 1886) (junior secondary homonym replaced before 1961)
  • Orpiella nouleti (Le Guillou, 1842): synonym of Irenella nouleti (Le Guillou, 1842) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella otarae (Garrett, 1872): synonym of Irenella otarae (Garrett, 1872) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella pfeifferi (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Irenella pfeifferi (Philippi, 1845) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella placita (Gude, 1913): synonym of Eufretum placita (Gude, 1913) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella plicostriata (Mousson, 1870): synonym of Fijia plicostriata (Mousson, 1870) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella ramsayi (Liardet, 1876): synonym of Eufretum ramsayi (Liardet, 1876) (superseded combination)
  • Orpiella sorora [sic]: synonym of Orpiella sororum (Clapp, 1923) (misspelling)

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Orpiella L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851340 on 16 November 2021
  • Delsaerdt A. , 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp
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  • Gray, J.E. ("descriptions of the species" by L. Pfeiffer). (1855). Catalogue of Pulmonata or air-breathing Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum, Part I. London: Taylor & Francis. 192 pp
  • Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370
  • Sykes, E. R. (1900). Notes on the non-marine Mollusca of Norfolk and Phillip Islands, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4: 139–147
  • Semper, C. (1870–1885). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen, Theil 2. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 3, Landmollusken. Wiesbaden: Kreidel
  • Gude, G. K. (1911). Note on some preoccupied generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 9(4): 269–273.
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