''Endodonta'' is a

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of small air-breathing

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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 ...

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s in the family

Endodontidae Endodontidae is a taxonomic family of very small air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea. This family, which includes both snails and slugs, appears to have once been much mo ...

, an

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family of land snails from the Hawaiian islands. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Endodonta Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851175 on 2020-11-02

Species

Species within the genus ''Endodonta'' include: * '' Endodonta apiculata'' (Ancey 1899) * '' Endodonta binaria'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) * '' Endodonta christenseni'' Slapcinsky, Yeung & Hayes, 1923 * '' Endodonta concentrata'' (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1905) * '' Endodonta ekahanuiensis'' (Solem, 1976) * '' Endodonta fricki'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1858) * '' Endodonta kalaeloana'' Christensen, 1982 * '' Endodonta kamehameha'' (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1905) * '' Endodonta lamellosa'' (Férussac, 1824) * '' Endodonta laminata'' (Pease, 1866) * '' Endodonta marsupialis'' Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1905 * '' Endodonta rugata'' (Pease, 1866)

References

* Ferussac (1825), Voyage Uranie et Physicienne Freycinet Zool. 2ème partie * Ferussac & Deshayes (1832), Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, Atlas , Pls 8E, 9B, 24A, 27A, 28B, 46A, 50, 51A, 54A, 56, 56A, 56B, 64-69, 69A, 71, 74, 79, 80, 82, 109, 117, 124A, 126, 131B, 133, 140, 141, 141A, 142B, 147, 148, 153, 155, 163 Chez Baillière, J.-B. Paris * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

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Taxonomy and authority

Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
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