''Dryocochlias'' is a
genus of small, 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 ...
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
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 Helicostylinae of the family
Camaenidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Dryocochlias Möllendorff, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995838 on 2021-02-03]
Species
* ''
Dryocochlias butleri''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1842)
* ''
Dryocochlias lacera ''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
* ''
Dryocochlias languida''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1843)
* ''
Dryocochlias metaformis''
(Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Dryocochlias rehbeini''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
* ''
Dryocochlias unica
''Dryocochlias'' is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicostylinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Dryocochlias Möllendorff, 1898. Accessed t ...
''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1843)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
* Schileyko, A. A. (2004). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 12. Bradybaenidae, Monadeniidae, Xanthonychidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Helmintoglyptidae, Elonidae, Humboldtianidae, Spincterochilidae, Cochlicellidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 1627–1763. Moskva
External links
O. F. von. (1898). Verzeichnis der auf den Philippinen lebenden Landmollusken. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz. 22: 26-208.
Camaenidae
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