Ponentina is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae,MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ponentina P. Hesse, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996338 on 2021-02-25 the hairy snails and their allies.
Species Species within this genus include: Ponentina antoni (E. Gittenberger, 2012) Ponentina curtivaginata D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina excentrica G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina foiaensis G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina grandiducta G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina martigena (Férussac, 1832) Ponentina monoglandulosa D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina octoglandulosa D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina papillosa G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2012 Ponentina platylasia (da Silva e Castro, 1887) Ponentina ponentina (Morelet, 1845) Ponentina revelata (Michaud, 1831) Ponentina rosai (da Silva e Castro, 1887) Ponentina subvirescens (Bellamy, 1839), the type species Taxon inquirendum Ponentina ponsonbyana (Pilsbry, 1895)
References
AnimalBase info at: Hesse, P. (1921). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Subfamilie Fruticicolinae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 53 (1/2): 55–83. Frankfurt am Main Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A. (2012). A review of the genus Ponentina Hesse 1921 with descriptions of seven new species from Portugal and Spain (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Journal of Conchology. 41(2), 173-238
External links
E. Gittenberger, On two nominal Ponentina species (Helicidae, Hygromiinae); Basteria, Volume 42 - Issue 1/3 p. 14- 14