''Dupontia'' 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 family
Euconulidae, the hive snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Dupontia'' include:
* ''
Dupontia levis''
* ''
Dupontia nitella
''Dupontia nitella'' is a species of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. This species is found in Mauritius and Réunion
Réunion (; french: La Réunion ...
''
* ''
Dupontia perlucida''
* ''
Dupontia poweri''
* ''
Dupontia proletaria''
References
* Type description of ''Dupontia'' Godwin-Austen 1908 is in Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8) 2, 428
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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