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Polygyridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. [2]The Polygyridae make up a significant proportion of the land snail fauna of eastern North America, and are also found in western North America, northern Central America, and are present on some Caribbean islands.
Camaenidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families in the clade Stylommatophora. These snails occur in a wide variety of habitats in the tropics of Eastern Asia and Australasia. [2]
Euglandina texasiana Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Stylommatophora Family: Spiraxidae Genus: Euglandina Species: E. texasiana Binomial name Euglandina texasiana (Pfeiffer, 1856) Euglandina texasiana is a species of large predatory air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family ...
Again, in some land snails, an unusual feature of the reproductive system of gastropods is the presence and utilization of love darts. [citation needed] In many marine gastropods other than the opisthobranchs, there are separate sexes (dioecious/gonochoric); most land gastropods, however, are hermaphrodites. [citation needed]
Neohelix albolabris is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae. Alternate names for Neohelix albolabris are Helix albolabris and Triodopsis albolabris. It is the first land snail to be named by an American-born naturalist, Thomas Say in 1817.
Euglandina rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or cannibal snail, is a species of medium-sized to large predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae. [1] This species is a fast and voracious predator, hunting and eating other snails and slugs. [2]
The shell is 15 mm (0.59 in) in length, 6 mm (0.24 in) in diameter, is elongated, with flattened lips. (Original description in Latin) The shell is compressedly umbilicate, oblong-turrite, somewhat sol
Xeroplexa [1] is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, [2] the hairy snails and their allies.