''Azeca'' is a European

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of small air-breathing

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

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s in the family

Cochlicopidae Cochlicopidae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cochlicopoidea. Anatomy In this family, the number of haploid chromosome A chromosome is a long DN ...

Species

The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the

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Extinct species

* '' Azeca baudoni'' Michaud, 1862 † * '' Azeca boettgeri'' Andreae, 1884 † * '' Azeca frechi'' Andreae, 1902 † * ''

Azeca lemoinei ''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. Species The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...

'' (Cossmann, 1889) † * ''

Azeca loryi ''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. Species The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...

'' Michaud, 1862 † * ''

Azeca lubricella ''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. Species The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...

'' O. Boettger, 1870 † * ''

Azeca miliolum ''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. Species The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...

'' Paladilhe, 1873 † * ''

Azeca moljavkoi ''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. Species The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...

'' Prysjazhnjuk in Gozhik & Prysjazhnjuk, 1978 † * ''

Azeca monocraspedon ''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. Species The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is: * '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...

'' Slavík, 1869 † * '' Azeca paramonovae'' Prisyazhnyuk in Luleva & Prisyazhnyuk, 1990 † * '' Azeca peneckei'' Andreae, 1892 † * '' Azeca perspicua'' Brusina, 1902 † * '' Azeca pumila'' Slavík, 1869 † * '' Azeca sexdentata'' Gottschick, 1920 † * '' Azeca tridentiformis'' (Gottschick, 1911) † * '' Azeca vitrea'' Klika, 1891 †

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

External links

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Bourguignat, J.-R. (1859). Aménités Malacologiques. § LXVIII. Notice monographique sur le genre Azeca. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. (2) 10 (12) [“1858”
527-545, pl. 18; (2) 11 (1): 16-21. Paris (≥ January; > January). [= Aménités Malacologiques, Tome second (livr. 5): 85-109, pl. 14 (1859). Paris] Pupilloidea {{Cochlicopidae-stub