Perpolita
genus of molluscs
Perpolita is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.
Species
Species within this genus include:
Perpolita binneyana (Morse, 1864)
Perpolita boettgeriana (Clessin, 1877)
Perpolita dalliana (Simpson, 1889)
†Perpolita disciformis Lueger, 1981
Perpolita electrina (Gould, 1841)
†Perpolita gliesei Schlickum & Strauch, 1975
Perpolita hammonis (Strøm, 1765)
† Perpolita mattiaca (O. Boettger, 1903)
†Perpolita miocaenica (Andreae, 1902)
Perpolita petronella (L.Pfeiffer, 1853)
Perpolita pulchra (Pierce, 1992)
† Perpolita riedeli Schlickum & Strauch, 1975
† Perpolita subhammonis (Gottschick, 1928)
Perpolita suzannae W.L.Pratt, 1978
† Perpolita wenzi Schlickum & Strauch, 1975
References
Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526.
Hausdorf, B. (1998). Phylogeny of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 64 (1): 35–66. London
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7169580. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1864, 1877, 1889 and 1981.
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