''Caracolus'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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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 ...
gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the family
Solaropsidae
Solaropsidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Sagdoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Solaropsidae H. Nordsieck, 1986. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.p ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Caracolus Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=932622 on 2020-07-27]
Species
Species within the genus ''Caracolus'' include:
* ''
Caracolus albilabris Lamarck, 1816
* † ''
Caracolus aquilonaris''
Bishop, 1979
* ''
Caracolus bicolor''
Lamarck, 1816
* ''
Caracolus bizonalis''
(Deshayes, 1850)
* ''
Caracolus caracolla''
Oken
* ''
Caracolus carinatus''
(Röding, 1798)
* ''
Caracolus carocolla''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Caracolus cimarron''
Espinosa, Fernández-Velázquez & Ortea, 2016
* ''
Caracolus marginella''
(Gmelin, 1791)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Caracolus oculatus''
Montfort, 1810: synonym of ''Caracolus carocolla''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
References
External links
Montfort P. [Denys de (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808">enys de">Montfort P. [Denys de
(1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808 Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16]
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11965983 page(s): 120MNHN, Paris: ''Caracolus carinatus'' (Röding, 1798)
Solaropsidae
Gastropod genera
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