Pittieria is a genus of land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s in the family Spiraxidae

Spiraxidae

Spiraxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the clade Eupulmonata .- 2005 taxonomy :...

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Distribution

The distribution of the genus Pittieria extends from Central Mexico to northern Panama.

Species

Species in the genus Pittieria include:

subgenus Pittieria Von Martens, 1901 include two species:

• Pittieria bicolor Von Martens, 1901 - type species
• Pittieria pittieri (Von Martens, 1901)

subgenus Laeviglandina Pilsbry, 1908 include nine species:

• Pittieria aurantiaca
  Pittieria aurantiaca
  Pittieria aurantiaca is a species of predatory air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae.This species was described based on only one specimen...
  
  (Angas, 1879)
• Pittieria broctontomlini (Pilsbry, 1926)
• Pittieria chiriquiensis (Da Costa, 1900)
• Pittieria decidua (Pfeiffer, 1861)
• Pittieria izabellina (Pfeiffer, 1846)
• Pittieria lanceolata (Von Martens, 1891)
• Pittieria obtusa (Pfeiffer, 1844)
• Pittieria tryoniana Pilsbry, 1908
• Pittieria underwoodi (Fulton, 1897)

subgenus Shuttleworthia H. B. Baker, 1941 include three species:

• Pittieria ambigua (Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Pittieria arborea H. B. Baker, 1941
• Pittieria difficilis (Crosse and Fischer, 1869)