''Fumonelix'' 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

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Polygyridae Polygyridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Polygyridae Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species a ...

Species

Species in the genus ''Fumonelix'' include:''Fumonelix''.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). *'' Fumonelix archeri'' – Ocoee covert, Archer's toothed land snail *'' Fumonelix cherohalaensis''Dourson, D. C. (2012)
Four new land snail species from the southern Appalachian Mountains.
''Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science'' 128(1), 1-10. *'' Fumonelix christyi'' – glossy covert *'' Fumonelix jonesiana'' – big-tooth covert, Jones' middle-toothed land snail *'' Fumonelix langdoni'' *'' Fumonelix orestes'' – engraved covert *'' Fumonelix roanensis'' *'' Fumonelix wetherbyi'' – clifty covert *'' Fumonelix wheatleyi'' – cinnamon covert

References

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