Sheldonia Ancey, 1887
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.309 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846854 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87A5-676E-FFB6-4D1F-F93AFE2AFDD0 |
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Sheldonia Ancey, 1887 |
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Genus Sheldonia Ancey, 1887 View in CoL
Sheldonia Ancey, 1887: 53 View in CoL .
Type species Helix trotteriana Benson, 1848 , by subsequent designation ( Connolly 1925: 467).
Peltatus Godwin-Austen, 1908: 131 View in CoL . Type species (original designation) Helix hudsoniae Benson, 1864 ( Godwin-Austen (1912a) subsequently re-identified his type material as Vitrina aloicola Melvill & Ponsonby, 1890 , indicating that he considered this to be the type species).
Remarks
Sheldonia , like Kerkophorus , includes both arboreal and ground-dwelling species.The shells are lenticular to sub-globose, usually lustreless, and the protoconch is usually punctate. The epiphallus is of moderate length and the caecum is cylindrical, often angled, arising close to the mid-point of the epiphallus. The genital atrium frequently possesses a stimulator and the free oviduct gland is conspicuously enlarged. In addition, the spermatophore has a single tail, the spine branches end in blunt, T-shaped bifurcations, and the spineless distal portion of the tail is relatively long, with stout lateral projections on each side in its mid-region.
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Sheldonia Ancey, 1887
Herbert, David G. 2017 |
Peltatus
Godwin-Austen H. H. 1908: 131 |
Sheldonia
Ancey C. F. 1887: 53 |