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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 ...
Stylommatophora is an order [3] of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon includes most land snails and slugs . Stylommatophorans lack an operculum , but some close their shell apertures with temporary "operculum" ( epiphragm ) made of calcified mucus.
The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. [3] It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America. Subspecies. Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835) [4]
Haeckel (left), 1866 Sea snail shells, Kunstformen der Natur, 1904. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many ...
Xeroplexa carrapateirensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. [1] The species epithet carrapateirensis is an adjective derived from the type locality near Carrapateira .
Again, in some land snails, an unusual feature of the reproductive system of gastropods is the presence and utilization of love darts. In many marine gastropods other than the opisthobranchs, there are separate sexes (dioecious/gonochoric); most land gastropods, however, are hermaphrodites.
Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea. [1] They are commonly called amber snails because their thin fragile shells are translucent and amber-colored. They usually live in damp habitats such as marshes.
Discus macclintocki F. C. Baker, 1928 – Iowa pleistocene snail, Pleistocene disc [5] Discus nigrimontanus Pilsbry, 1924 – Black Mountain disc [5] Discus patulus (G. P. Deshayes, 1830) – domed disc [5] Discus selenitoides (Pilsbry, 1890) – file disc [5] Discus shimekii (Pilsbry, 1890) – striate disc [5] Species brought into synonymy [6]