Pyrenaearia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Leptaxinae of the family Hygromiidae, the harry snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyrenaearia P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996519 on 2022-03-17
These snails live in limestone areas in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern Europe.
Species Species in the genus Pyrenaearia:Species in genus Pyrenaearia. AnimalBase, accessed 28 November 2009 Pyrenaearia cantabrica (Hidalgo, 1873) Pyrenaearia carascalensis (Férussac, 1821) - type species Pyrenaearia carascalopsis (Bourguignat in Fagot, 1884) Pyrenaearia cotiellae (Fagot, 1906) Pyrenaearia daanidentata Raven, 1988 Pyrenaearia guillenae Caro, Madeira & Gómez-Moliner, 2019 Pyrenaearia molae Haas, 1924 Pyrenaearia navasi (Fagot, 1907) Pyrenaearia organiaca (Fagot, 1905) Pyrenaearia parva Ortiz de Zárate, 1956 Synonyms Pyrenaearia oberthueri (Ancey, 1884): synonym of Pyrenaearia cantabrica (Hidalgo, 1873) Pyrenaearia poncebensis Ortiz de Zárate, 1956: synonym of Pyrenaearia cantabrica poncebensis Ortiz de Zárate López, 1956 Pyrenaearia schaufussii (Kobelt, 1876): synonym of Pyrenaearia cantabrica schaufussi (Kobelt, 1876) (not assessed) Pyrenaearia velascoi (Hidalgo, 1867): synonym of Pyrenaearia carascalensis (Michaud, 1831)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Further reading Hesse, P. (1921). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 53 (1/2): 55–83. Frankfurt am Main Elejalde M. A., Madeira M. J., Prieto C. E., Backeljau T., Gómez-Moliner B. J. (July 2009) "Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of the Land Snail Genus Pyrenaearia (Gastropoda, Helicoidea)". American Malacological Bulletin 27(1-2): 69–81.