Mariaella [SEP] parent taxon
Mariaella
Mariaella is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae.
Species from genus "Mariaella" are also pests on vanilla.
Species.
Species in the genus "Mariaella" include:
- "Mariaella beddomei" (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
- "Mariaella dussumieri" (Gray, 1855) - type species
Distribution.
India.
Western Ghats, from Mahableshwar southwards, and hill-country of Ceylon.
Shell description
diverged to "S. punctipes", "S. variegatus" and "S. tomentosus". A 2001 study found it was not closely related to other European species, and that all populations tested were more closer to each other than any other and hence it was a cohesive species.
Czech mycologist Josef Šutara circumscribed the genus "Mariaella" in 1987, assigning "Mariaella bovina" as the type species. "Mariaella" contained "Suillus" species in section "Fungosi". Molecular studies do not support the