''Clostophis'' 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 ...
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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 subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family
Gastrocoptidae
Gastrocoptidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea.Philippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, ...
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[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995219 on 2021-06-19]
Species
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Clostophis incurvus''
Páll-Gergely & Vermeulen, 2020
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Clostophis infantilis
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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Páll-Gergely, 2020
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Clostophis koilobasis
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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Páll-Gergely & Vermeulen, 2020
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Clostophis multiformis
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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Páll-Gergely & A. Reischütz, 2020
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Clostophis neglectus
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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(van Benthem Jutting, 1961)
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Clostophis obtusus
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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Páll-Gergely & Grego, 2020
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Clostophis platytrochus
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2020
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Clostophis proboscideus
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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(Panha & J. B. Burch, 1999)
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Clostophis sankeyi
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. Accessed through ...
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Benson, 1860
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Clostophis stochi
''Clostophis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hypselostomatinae of the family Gastrocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Clostophis Benson, 1860. ...
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(Páll-Gergely & Jochum, 2017)
References
* Panha, S. & Burch, J. B. (1999). Two new genera of pupillid land snails from Thailand (Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Gastrocoptinae). Malacological Review. 31/32(2): 143–153.
External links
Benson, W. H. (1860). On Clostophis and Rhiostoma, new Burmese genera of land-shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3) 5(26): 95-97.Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A., Grego, J., Reischütz, A., Buczkó, K. & Vermeulen, J. J. (2020). Clostophis Benson, 1860, is not a monotypic diplommatinid but a speciose hypselostomatid (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata), with descriptions of six new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 350–368.Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map. [July]. Berlin (R. Friedländer).
Gastrocoptidae
Gastropod genera
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