''Caucasotachea'' is a genus of medium-sized 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
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
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 ...
mollusc
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 esti ...
s in the family
Helicidae
Helicidae is a large, diverse family of small to large, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."
A number of species in this family are valued as food items, including ''Cornu aspersum'' (formerly ''Helix aspersa'') the b ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996428 on 2020-08-30]
Species
The following species are currently classified in the genus:
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Caucasotachea andrussovi''
Steklov, 1966
* ''
Caucasotachea atrolabiata''
(Krynicki, 1833)
* † ''
Caucasotachea beringi
''Caucasotachea'' is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register ...
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Schütt, 1985
* ''
Caucasotachea calligera''
( Dubois de Montpéreux, 1840)
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Caucasotachea candirensis''
Schütt, 1985
* ''
Caucasotachea intercedens ( Retowski, 1889)
* † ''
Caucasotachea kubanica''
Steklov, 1966
* ''
Caucasotachea leucoranea''
(Mousson
Mousson () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. The village lies on a hilltop, adjacent to the east of Pont-à-Mousson.
See also
* Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
The following is a list of ...
, 1863)
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Caucasotachea phrygomysica''
(Oppenheim, 1919)
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Caucasotachea vindobonensis
''Caucasotachea vindobonensis'' is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae.
The scientific name is derived from the Celtic settlement Vindobona, now known as Vienna, the cap ...
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( C. Pfeiffer, 1828)
References
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Helicidae
Gastropod genera