Pernastela

Genus of land snails

Pernastela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Punctidae
Genus: Pernastela
Iredale, 1944[1]
Location of Lord Howe Island

Pernastela is a genus of three pinhead or dot snail species that are endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]

Species

  • Pernastela charon Iredale, 1944 – lowland forest pinhead snail
  • Pernastela gnoma Iredale, 1944 – dwarf pinhead snail
  • Pernastela howensis Iredale, 1944 – Lord Howe pinhead snail

References

  1. ^ Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.
  2. ^ Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.
  • MolluscaBase eds (2021). "Pernastela Iredale, 1944". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 2021-08-15. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
Taxon identifiers
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