''Drymaeus liliaceus'' is a species of tropical 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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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

Bulimulidae Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulimulidae Tryon, ...

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* Breure A. S. H. (1979). "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". '' Zoologische Verhandelingen'' Leiden 168: 1-215, figs 1-182, pls. 1-3, tables 1-5
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* Pilsbry H. A. (1899). ''American Bulimulidae: North American and Antillean ''Drymaeus'', ''Leiostracus'', Orthalicinae and Amphibuliminae. Manual of Conchology'' (2)12: i-iii, 1-258, pls 1-64
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