Hystricella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998825 on 2022-07-21
Species Species within the genus Hystricella include: † Hystricella aucta (Wollaston, 1878) Hystricella bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) † Hystricella echinoderma (Wollaston, 1878) Hystricella echinulata (R. T. Lowe, 1831) † Hystricella microcarinata De Mattia & Groh, 2018
Synonyms Hystricella leacockiana (Wollaston, 1878): synonym of Wollastonaria leacockiana (Wollaston, 1878) (superseded generic combination) Hystricella oxytropis (R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of Wollastonaria oxytropis (R. T. Lowe, 1831) (superseded generic combination) Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of Wollastonaria turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831) (superseded generic combination)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links Lowe, R. T. (1855 ("1854")). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208 De Mattia, W., Neiber, M. T. & Groh, K. (2018). Revision of the genus-group Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855 from Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago), with descriptions of new recent and fossil taxa (Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Geomitridae). ZooKeys. 732: 1-125