Orpiella

Orpiella
Shell of Orpiella keppelli (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Trochomorphoidea
Family:	Trochomorphidae
Genus:	Orpiella L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855
Type species
Helix (Nanina) scorpio Gould, 1846
Synonyms
Aulacopus Pfeffer, 1878 Eurypus C. Semper, 1870 (Invalid: junior homonym of Eurypus Kirby, 1819 [Coleoptera], Fretum Sykes, 1900 is a replacement name) Fretum Sykes, 1900 Kalendyma Gude, 1911 (junior synonym) Orpiella (Fijia) Gude, 1913· accepted, alternate representation Orpiella (Halozonites) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation Orpiella (Kalendyma) Gude, 1911 (junior synonym) Orpiella (Orpiella) L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Orpiella (Owaraha) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation Owaraha H. B. Baker, 1941

Orpiella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.^[1]

Species within the genus Orpiella include:

• Orpiella artensis (Souverbie, 1859)
• Orpiella compluviata (Cox, 1871)
• Orpiella concava (Clapp, 1923)
• Orpiella cookensis (Gude, 1905)
• Orpiella desmazuresi (Crosse, 1872)
• Orpiella fragillima (Mousson, 1870)
• Orpiella keppelli (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Orpiella kuntzi Solem, 1960
• Orpiella lepida (Gude, 1913)
• Orpiella malaitaensis (Clapp, 1923)
• Orpiella manni (Clapp, 1923)
• Orpiella pamuaensis (Clapp, 1923)
• Orpiella proxima H. B. Baker, 1941
• Orpiella retardata (Cox, 1870)
• Orpiella salomonis (Vanatta, 1930)
• Orpiella schmeltziana (Garrett, 1887)
• Orpiella scorpio (Gould, 1846)
• Orpiella smithi (Clapp, 1923)
• Orpiella solidiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1885)
• Orpiella sororum (Clapp, 1923)
• Orpiella tenella (Garrett, 1872)
• Orpiella treasuryensis (Tryon, 1886)
• Orpiella woodwardi (Godwin-Austen, 1903)

Species brought into synonymy

• Orpiella casca (Gould, 1852): synonym of Orpiella scorpio (Gould, 1846) (junior synonym)
• Orpiella godeffroyana (Garrett, 1872): synonym of Irenella godeffroyana (Garrett, 1872) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella hoyti (Garrett, 1872): synonym of Irenella hoyti (Garrett, 1872) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella macgillivrayi (Gude, 1913): synonym of Fijia macgillivrayi Gude, 1913 (superseded combination)
• Orpiella nitidissima (E. A. Smith, 1885): synonym of Orpiella treasuryensis (Tryon, 1886) (junior secondary homonym replaced before 1961)
• Orpiella nouleti (Le Guillou, 1842): synonym of Irenella nouleti (Le Guillou, 1842) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella otarae (Garrett, 1872): synonym of Irenella otarae (Garrett, 1872) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella pfeifferi (Philippi, 1845): synonym of Irenella pfeifferi (Philippi, 1845) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella placita (Gude, 1913): synonym of Eufretum placita (Gude, 1913) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella plicostriata (Mousson, 1870): synonym of Fijia plicostriata (Mousson, 1870) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella ramsayi (Liardet, 1876): synonym of Eufretum ramsayi (Liardet, 1876) (superseded combination)
• Orpiella sorora [sic]: synonym of Orpiella sororum (Clapp, 1923) (misspelling)

• Delsaerdt A. , 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp

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• Gray, J.E. ("descriptions of the species" by L. Pfeiffer). (1855). Catalogue of Pulmonata or air-breathing Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum, Part I. London: Taylor & Francis. 192 pp
• Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370
• Sykes, E. R. (1900). Notes on the non-marine Mollusca of Norfolk and Phillip Islands, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4: 139–147
• Semper, C. (1870–1885). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen, Theil 2. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 3, Landmollusken. Wiesbaden: Kreidel
• Gude, G. K. (1911). Note on some preoccupied generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 9(4): 269–273.