''Colparion'' is a genus of minute, air-breathing

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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 ...

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Urocyclidae Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Some spec ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Colparion Laidlaw, 1938. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996898 on 2021-01-14

Species

Species within the genus ''Colparion'' include: * ''

Colparion madgei ''Colparion madgei'' is an extinct species of hive snail endemic to Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Oce ...

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References

* Laidlaw, F. F. (1938). A new genus and species of the Ariophantidae from the Island of Rodriguez. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute. 1(3): 9-12 * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017 Urocyclidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Urocyclidae-stub