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Papustyla

genus of molluscs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7133247 ↗
Source-derived summary

Papustyla is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.

Species

This genus contains the following species:

Papustyla chancei (Cox, 1870) Chance's Papustyla.

Papustyla chapmani (Cox 1870), Chapman's Papustyla.

Papustyla fergusoni (H. Adams, 1872) Ferguson's Papustyla.

Papustyla hindei (Cox, 1886)

Papustyla lilium (Fulton, 1905) Lily-white Papustyla.

Papustyla novaepommeraniae (I. Rensch & B. Rensch, 1929) New Pommeran Papustyla.

Papustyla pulcherrima (I. Rensch, 1931) Emerald green snail.

Papustyla xanthochila (Pfeiffer, 1861) Golden mouth Papustyla.

Species brought into synonymy

Papustyla horderi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1890): synonym of Papuina antiqua horderi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1890)(superseded combination)

References

Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World.

Editorial summary

“Papustyla” enters the record as genus of molluscs. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Papustyla, genus and molluscs can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1870, 1872, 1886, 1905—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Papustyla, genus and molluscs.
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“Papustyla” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Papustyla, genus and molluscs provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7133247. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1870, 1872, 1886 and 1905.

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This entry incorporates text from “Papustyla” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.