Lyrula Wollaston, 1878

Ibáñez, Miguel, Groh, Klaus, Alonso, María R. & Castillo, Carolina, 2006, The subgenus Monilearia (Lyrula) Wollaston, 1878 (Gastropoda: Helicoidea: Cochlicellidae) from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), with the description of Monilearia (Lyrula) tubaeformis sp. nov., Zootaxa 1320, pp. 29-41 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.174000
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622475
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Subgenus Lyrula Wollaston, 1878

Type species (by monotypy): Helix [ Lyrula ] loweana Wollaston, 1878 .

Diagnosis: Small Monilearia with a disklike, almost flat to sunken shell, conspicuously umbilicated, ornamented with sharp, denselypacked, oblique subundulating transverse riblets, decussated by multiple minute spiral lines above and below the angled periphery, in one species are several (12–13) pronounced spiral ribs.

This subgenus groups the species Monilearia loweana , M. multipunctata and M. tubaeformis sp. nov.