''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a

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of very large, 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 ...

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 ...

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s in the

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Bothriembryontidae Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea. Taxonomy This family has been named Placostylidae and had no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of th ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863055 on 2020-11-14

Species

Species within this genus include: * '' Eumecostylus almiranta'' (Clench, 1941) * '' Eumecostylus calus'' (E. A. Smith, 1892) * '' Eumecostylus cleryi'' (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850) * '' Eumecostylus cylindricus'' (Fulton, 1907) * '' Eumecostylus foxi'' (Clench, 1950) * ''

Eumecostylus fraterculus ''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed ...

'' (B. Rensch, 1934) * '' Eumecostylus gallegoi'' (Clench, 1941) * '' Eumecostylus gardneri'' Delsaerdt, 2010 * '' Eumecostylus hargravesi'' (Cox, 1871) * '' Eumecostylus kirakiraensis'' (B. Rensch, 1934) * '' Eumecostylus phenax'' (Clapp, 1923) * ''

Eumecostylus sanchristovalensis ''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed ...

'' (Cox, 1870) * ''

Eumecostylus scottii ''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed ...

'' (Cox, 1873) * ''

Eumecostylus uliginosus ''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed ...

'' (Kobelt, 1891) * ''

Eumecostylus unicus ''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed ...

'' (B. Rensch, 1934) * ''

Eumecostylus vicinus ''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmona ...

'' (B. Rensch, 1934)

References

* Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37-131. * Delsaerdt, A., 2010. Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 1. Placostylidae

External links

J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman

Clench, W.J. (1941). The Land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). ''American Museum Novitates''. 1129: 1-21.
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