Costigo

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Costigo
Shell of Costigo desmazuresi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Vertiginidae
Genus: Costigo
O. Boettger, 1891
Type species
Vertigo saparuana Boettger, 1891
Synonyms

Vertigo (Costigo) O. Boettger, 1891 (original rank)

Costigo is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.[1]

Species[edit]

Species within the genus Costigo include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Costigo borbonica (H. Adams, 1868): synonym of Gibbulinopsis pupula (Deshayes, 1863) (junior synonym)
  • Costigo moleculina van Benthem Jutting, 1940: synonym of Pupisoma moleculina (van Benthem Jutting, 1940) (original combination)
  • Costigo pulvisculum (Issel, 1874): synonym of Pupisoma pulvisculum (Issel, 1874) (superseded combination)

References[edit]

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Costigo O. Boettger, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875182 on 2020-09-22
  • Crosse, H., 1873. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 136-144
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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