''Hyperaulax ramagei'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of tropical 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 ...

, a 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 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 ...

in the family

Odontostomidae Odontostomidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and su ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Hyperaulax ramagei (E. A. Smith, 1890). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1337749 on 2020-06-15

Shell description

Distribution

This terrestrial species is found on the islands Fernando de Noronha off BraziL.

References

* Breure, A. S. H., 1976. Types of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 233 "1975": 1137–1187, sér. ser.3, part. Zoologie

External links

Jousseaume, [F.]. (1900). Mollusques terrestres. Clausilia, Rhodea et Bulimus Sud-Americanae. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris, ser. 9. 2(1): 5-44

Salvador, R. B.; Cavallari, D. C. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the genus Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostomidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 95(2): 453-463
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hyperaulax Ramagei Odontostomidae Gastropods described in 1890 Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith