''Armsia'' is a
genus
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of small, air-breathing,
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the family
Amastridae
Amastridae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Amastridae Pilsbry, 1910. Accessed through: World Register ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Armsia'' include:
* ''
Armsia petasus
''Armsia petasus'' is a species of small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Amastridae. They are critically endangered by habitat loss.
This species is endemic to the United States
Th ...
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References
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Amastridae
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