''Chersaecia'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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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
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Plectopylidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Chersaecia Gude, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877817 on 2021-03-09]
Species
Species in the genus ''Chersaecia'' include:
* ''
Chersaecia auffenbergi''
Páll-Gergely, 2018
* ''
Chersaecia austeni''
(Gude, 1899)
* ''
Chersaecia brachyplecta''
(Benson, 1863)
* ''
Chersaecia densegyrata''
Páll-Gergely, 2018
* ''
Chersaecia dextrorsa''
(Benson, 1860)
* ''
Chersaecia feddeni''
(W. T. Blanford, 1865)
* ''
Chersaecia goniobathmos''
(Ehrmann, 1922)
* ''
Chersaecia leiophis''
(Benson, 1860)
* ''
Chersaecia leucochila''
(Gude, 1898)
* ''
Chersaecia magna
''Chersaecia magna'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Chersaecia magna (Gude, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...
''
(Gude, 1897)
* ''
Chersaecia mogokensis''
Páll-Gergely, 2018
* ''
Chersaecia nagaensis''
(Godwin-Austen, 1875)
* ''
Chersaecia perarcta''
(W. T. Blanford, 1865)
* ''
Chersaecia perrierae''
(Gude, 1898)
* ''
Chersaecia refuga''
(Gould, 1846)
* ''
Chersaecia reversalis''
Páll-Gergely, 2018
* ''
Chersaecia scabra''
Páll-Gergely, 2018
* ''
Chersaecia shanensis''
(Stoliczka, 1873)
* ''
Chersaecia shiroiensis''
(Godwin-Austen, 1875)
* ''
Chersaecia smithiana''
(Gude, 1897)
* ''
Chersaecia woodthorpei''
(Gude, 1899)
References
External links
Gude G. K. (1899). Armature of helicoid landshells and new sections of Plectopylis. Science-Gossip. 6(65): 147-149Páll-Gergely B., Budha P.B., Naggs F., Backeljau T. & Asami T. (2015). Review of the genus Endothyrella Zilch, 1960 with description of five new species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae). ZooKeys. 529: 1-70
Plectopylidae
Taxa named by William Henry Benson
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