''Daedalochila uvulifera'',
common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...
the peninsula liptooth, is a
species 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 ...
, a
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 ...
mollusk in the family
Polygyridae.
Subspecies
* ''Daedalochila uvulifera bicornuta''
* ''Daedalochila uvulifera margueritae''
* ''Daedalochila uvulifera striata''
[Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). ''Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico)''. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 591-607.][Burch, John B. (1962). ''How to know the Eastern Land Snails''. Wm. C. Brown Co.: Dubuque IA, 214 pp.]
References
Polygyridae
Gastropods described in 1852
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