''Emoda'' 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
land snails with an
operculum,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the family
Helicinidae
Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.
These snails are not at all closely related to the air-breathing land snails, d ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Emoda'' include:
* ''
Emoda bayamensis'' (Poey, 1854)
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* ''
Emoda bermudezi'' Aguayo & Jaume, 1954
* ''
Emoda blanesi'' Clench & Aguayo in Aguayo, 1953
* ''
Emoda briarea'' (Poey, 1851)
* ''
Emoda caledoniensis'' Clench & Jacobson, 1971
* ''
Emoda ciliata'' (Poey, 1852)
* ''
Emoda clementis'' Clench & Aguayo, 1950
* ''
Emoda emoda'' (Pfeiffer, 1865)
* ''
Emoda mayarina'' (Poey, 1854)
* ''
Emoda najazaensis'' Aguayo & Jaume, 1954
* ''
Emoda pulcherrima'' (Lea, 1834)
* ''
Emoda sagraiana'' (d’Orbigny, 1842)
* ''
Emoda silacea'' (Morelet, 1849)
* ''
Emoda submarginata'' (Gray, 1824)
References
Helicinidae
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