Pseudiberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae, inhabiting in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi Provinces. Platypetasus Pilsbry, 1894Pilsbry H. A. (1894). Manual of Conchology, In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1894). "Helicidae – Volume VII." (2)9: page 207. Plate 55, fig. 8-9. was previously considered as synonyms of Pseudiberus, however Zhang et al. (2024) corrected it via phylogenetics based on morphology and molecules.
Taxonomy Two subgenera Pseudiberus and Platypetasus were synonymized in the study published in 2006 by Min Wu and Gang Qi, because their genital characters and their distribution range largely overlap.Wu M. & Qi G. (2006). "A taxonomic note on Pseudiberus Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae)". Folia Malacologica 14(1): 25–30. PDF .
Distribution These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.
Species list Species in the genus Pseudiberus: Pseudiberus anderssoni (Odhner, 1925) Pseudiberus depressus (Yen, 1935) Pseudiberus chentingensis Yen, 1935 - synonym: Pseudiberus cixianensis Chen & Zhang, 2000 Pseudiberus futtereri (Andreae, 1903) Pseudiberus tectumsinense (Martens, 1873) - type species of the genus Pseudiberus Pseudiberus zenonis (Gredler, 1882) Pseudiberus shanheicus Zhang et al., 2024
Ecology These snails live under old stones and in forests. They eat plants.
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