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New data on the genus Papillifera W. Hartmann, 1842 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) in Sicily (Italy)
expand article infoFabio Liberto‡, Agatino Reitano§, Mariestella Colomba|, Ignazio Sparacio
‡ Unaffiliated, Via del Giubileo Magno 93, Cefalù, Italy
§ Museo di Storia Naturale di Comiso, via degli Studi 9, Comiso, Italy
| Università di Urbino, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari, Via I. Maggetti 22, Urbino, Italy
¶ Società Italiana di Malacologia, via Principe di Paternò 3, Palermo, Italy
Corresponding author: Fabio Liberto (fabioliberto@yahoo.it)
Received: 13 Sep 2019 | Published: 16 Sep 2019
© 2019 Fabio Liberto, Agatino Reitano, Mariestella Colomba, Ignazio Sparacio
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Citation: Liberto F, Reitano A, Colomba M, Sparacio I (2019) New data on the genus PapilliferaW. Hartmann, 1842 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) in Sicily (Italy). ARPHA Conference Abstracts 2: e46556. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.2.e46556
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Abstract

Papillifera papillaris (O.F. Müller, 1774) is a door snail (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) with Graciliaria clausilial apparatus, autochthonous in southern Italy, Sicily and Maltese Islands, but that has been widespread in the western Mediterranean region.

In Sicily, P. papillaris is widely distributed and relatively diverse and this led in the 1800s to the description of numerous taxa. Some of these taxa are considered valid subspecies, while other taxa have not been revised in recent times. In the present work the taxa described for the genus Papillifera W. Hartmann, 1842 in Sicily are re-examined and the distribution of the subspecies is redefined.

Presenting author

Ignazio Sparacio

Presented at

Vth International Congress on Biodiversity: „Taxonomy, Speciation and Euro-Mediterranean Biodiversity“