''Elasmias'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
tropical tree
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-living air-breathing
land snails,
arboreal
Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose nu ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the family
Achatinellidae
Achatinellidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Taxonomy
It was previously the only family in the superfamily Achatinelloidea (according to the taxonom ...
.
''Elasmias'' is the type genus of the tribe
Elasmiatini.
Species
Species within the genus ''Elasmias'' include:
* ''
Elasmias cernicum
''Elasmias cernicum'' is a species of tropical, tree-living, air-breathing, land snail, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species is found in Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe ...
''
* ''
Elasmias jaurffreti''
* ''
Elasmias kitaiwojimanum''
* ''
Elasmias quadrasi''
* ''
Elasmias wakefieldiae''
Cox, 1868
References
Achatinellidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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