Massylaea Moellendorff , 1898

Bouaziz-Yahiatene, Houria, Pfarrer, Beat, Medjdoub-Bensaad, Ferroudja & Eike Neubert,, 2017, Revision of Massylaea Moellendorff, 1898 (Stylommatophora, Helicidae), ZooKeys 694, pp. 109-133 : 113

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Massylaea Moellendorff , 1898
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Genus Massylaea Moellendorff, 1898 View in CoL

Massylaea Möllendorff, 1908; Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 30 (9/10): 120.

Vermiculatiana Caziot, 1908; Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 20 (4): 439. Type species (by monotypy): Helix vermiculata O.F. Müller, 1774.

Eobania Hesse, 1913; Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 45(1): 13. Type species (by monotypy): Helix vermiculata O.F. Müller, 1774.

Type species.

Helix massylaea Morelet, 1851 by tautonymy.

Diagnosis.

Large shells, spire flat to considerably raised, with or without a malleate surface structure, aperture without or only with a small labial ridge; penial chamber with a solid “false” penial papilla, epiphallus entering the penial chamber through a laterally situated pore, glandulae mucosae with many subdivided tubules, diverticulum very long.