Pseudiberus

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image =Pseudiberus chentingensis shell.png | image_caption = ''Pseudiberus chentingensis'' shell | taxon = Pseudiberus | authority = Ancey, 1887<ref name="Ancey 1887">Ancey C. F. (1887). "Description of new genera or subgenera of Helicidae". ''The Conchologists’ Exchange'' '''1'''(12): 75-76. [https://archive.org/stream/conchologistsexc12188688aver#page/n83/mode/2up page 76].</ref> }} '''''Pseudiberus''''' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae,<ref name="Zhang 2021">{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Guoyi|last2=Wu|first2=Min|first3=Koehler|last3=Frank|first4=Liu|last4=Tengteng|date=2021|title=Review of the Genus ''Pseudiberus'' Ancey, 1887 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae) in Shandong Province, China|journal=Malacologia|volume=63 |issue=2 |doi=10.4002/040.063.0207|s2cid=232081073 }}</ref> inhabiting in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi Provinces.<ref name="Zhang 2024">{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Guoyi|last2=Liu|first2=Z|first3=Feng|last3=Q|first4=Zhang|last4=G|date=2024|title=Systematics and biogeography of the genera Pseudiberus Ancey, 1887 and Platypetasus Pilsbry, 1895 (Stylommatophora: Camaenidae), with the description of Pseudiberus shanheicus n. sp.|journal=Journal of Conchology|volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=77–90 |doi=10.61733/jconch/4510 }}</ref> ''Platypetasus'' Pilsbry, 1894<ref>Pilsbry H. A. (1894). ''Manual of Conchology'', In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1894). "Helicidae – Volume VII." (2)'''9''': [https://archive.org/stream/manualofconcholo09tryorich#page/206/mode/2up page 207]. [https://archive.org/stream/manualofconcholo09tryorich#page/477/mode/1up Plate 55], fig. 8-9.</ref> was previously considered as synonyms of ''Pseudiberus'',<ref name="Wu 2006"></ref> however Zhang et al. (2024)<ref name="Zhang 2024"></ref> 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.<ref name="Wu 2006">Wu M. & Qi G. (2006). "A taxonomic note on ''Pseudiberus'' Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae)". ''Folia Malacologica'' '''14'''(1): 25–30. {{doi|10.12657/folmal.014.003}} [http://foliamalacologica.com/download.php?ma_id=320 PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724000025/http://www.foliamalacologica.com/download.php?ma_id=320 |date=2015-07-24 }}.</ref>

==Distribution== These terrestrial snails inhabit Eastern Asia.

==Species list== Species in the genus ''Pseudiberus'': * ''Pseudiberus anderssoni'' (Odhner, 1925)<ref name="Zhang 2021"/> * ''Pseudiberus depressus'' (Yen, 1935)<ref name="Zhang 2021"/> * ''Pseudiberus chentingensis'' Yen, 1935 <ref name="Zhang 2020">{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Guoyi|last2=Ge|first2=Lin|first3=Hao|last3=Shulian|first4=Liu|last4=Tengteng|date=2020|title=Current Status and Illustrations of the Type Specimens of the Species Described by Teng-Chien Yen in 1935 belonging to ''Cathaica'' Möllendorff, 1884 and ''Pseudiberus'' Ancey, 1887 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Camaenidae)|journal=Archiv für Molluskenkunde|volume=149 |pages=55–65 |doi=10.1127/arch.moll/149/2020/55}}</ref> - synonym: ''Pseudiberus cixianensis'' Chen & Zhang, 2000<ref name="Wu 2006"/> * ''Pseudiberus futtereri'' (Andreae, 1903) * ''Pseudiberus tectumsinense'' (Martens, 1873) - type species of the genus ''Pseudiberus''<ref name="Ancey 1887"/><ref name="Wu 2006"/> * ''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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Category:Bradybaeninae Category:Taxa named by César Marie Félix Ancey