''Geotrochus'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial 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 ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Trochomorphidae
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has bee ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869645 on 2020-12-20]
Species
Species within the genus ''Geotrochus'' include:
* ''
Geotrochus affinis''
(E. A. Smith, 1894)
* ''
Geotrochus bicolor''
(Martens, 1864)
* ''
Geotrochus conicoides''
(Metcalfe, 1851)
* ''
Geotrochus conus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
* ''
Geotrochus kinabaluensis''
(E. A. Smith, 1895)
* ''
Geotrochus kitteli''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus labuanensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1864)
* ''
Geotrochus meristotrochus''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus multicarinatus
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
(Boettger, 1890)
* ''
Geotrochus niahensis''
(Godwin-Austen, 1891)
* ''
Geotrochus oedobasis''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus paraguensis''
(E. A. Smith, 1893)
* ''
Geotrochus rimatus''
Vermeulen, 1997
* ''
Geotrochus scolops''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus spilokeiria''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus subscalaris
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus subtricolor
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
(Mabille, 1887)
* ''
Geotrochus sylvanus
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
(Dohrn & C. Semper, 1862)
* ''
Geotrochus verticillatus
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
van Benthem Jutting, 1959
* ''
Geotrochus whiteheadi
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
(E. A. Smith, 1895)
* † ''
Geotrochus xinanensis
''Geotrochus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfami ...
''
Yü & Zhang, 1982
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
External links
Gude, G. K. (1913). Definitions of further new genera of Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10: 389-391
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