Perforatella

Perforatella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Hygromiinae of the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Perforatella
Perforatella bidentata shells
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Hygromiidae
Subfamily:	Hygromiinae
Genus:	Perforatella Schlüter, 1838
Species
See text
Synonyms
Dibothrion L. Pfeiffer, 1855 Helix (Petasia) Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of Petasia Stephens, 1829 [Lepidoptera]) Perforatella (Perforatella) Schlüter, 1838 Petasia H. Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of Petasia Stephens, 1829 [Lepidoptera]) Trochiscus Held, 1838

This genus of snails is native to northeastern Europe to the Caucasus and Siberia.

Species in this genus of snails create and use love darts in their mating behavior.

Species

Species within the genus Perforatella:

• Perforatella bidentata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Perforatella dibothrion (Bielz, 1860)
• † Perforatella schileykoi Prisyazhnyuk, 1974

Synonyms

• Perforatella incarnata (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Monachoides incarnatus (O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded generic combination)
• Perforatella rubiginosa (A. Schmidt, 1853): synonym of Pseudotrichia rubiginosa (Rossmässler, 1838)