''Beddomea'' is a genus of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial 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 ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the family
Camaenidae. These snails are restricted to
South India and
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
and three species of its kind have been discovered.
Species
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Beddomea albizonatus
''Beddomea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka. and three species of its kind have been discovered.
Species
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(Reeve 1849)
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Beddomea ceylanicus
''Beddomea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī ...
''
(Pfeiffer 1846)
* ''
Beddomea intermedius
''Beddomea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka. and three species of its kind have been discovered.
Species
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(Pfeiffer 1855)
References
Camaenidae
Gastropod genera
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