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Xolotrema
''Xolotrema'' is a genus (or subgenus under ''Triodopsis'') of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae. Shell description Pilsbry (1940)Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 823. characterized the shell of ''Xolotrema'' (which he considered to be a subgenus) thus: "''Triodopses'', in which the inner margin of the basal lip has a long bladelike lamella, terminating at a notch where it joins the outer arc of the lip; the embryonic whorls are covered with close retractive radial striae (subobsolete in ''T. fosteri'')." Species Species within the genus ''Xolotrema'' include: * ''Xolotrema carolinensis'' * ''Xolotrema fosteri'' * ''Xolotrema notata'' * ''Xolotrema obstricta'' References

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Xolotrema Carolinensis
''Xolotrema'' is a genus (or subgenus under ''Triodopsis'') of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae. Shell description Pilsbry (1940)Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 823. characterized the shell of ''Xolotrema'' (which he considered to be a subgenus) thus: "''Triodopses'', in which the inner margin of the basal lip has a long bladelike lamella, terminating at a notch where it joins the outer arc of the lip; the embryonic whorls are covered with close retractive radial striae (subobsolete in ''T. fosteri'')." Species Species within the genus ''Xolotrema'' include: * ''Xolotrema carolinensis'' * ''Xolotrema fosteri'' * ''Xolotrema notata'' * ''Xolotrema obstricta'' References

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