''Indoartemon'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial pulmonate
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.
Stre ...
.
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Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Indoartemon'' includes:
*
Sri Lanka
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* South-East Asia
*
Hainan
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,
China
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[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new * of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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'' 160: 1–16. .
Species
* within the genus ''Indoartemon'' include:
* ''
Indoartemon cingalensis''
(Benson, 1853)
* ''
Indoartemon deformis''
D. S. Do & T. S. Nguyen, 2020
* ''
Indoartemon diodonta''
Inkhavilay & Panha, 2016
* ''
Indoartemon eburneus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1861)
* ''
Indoartemon fuchsianus''
(Gredler, 1881)
* ''
Indoartemon gracilis''
(Collet, 1898)
* ''
Indoartemon huberi''
(Thach, 2016)
* ''
Indoartemon laevis''
(W. T. Blanford, 1899)
* ''
Indoartemon layardianus''
(Benson, 1853)
* ''
Indoartemon medius''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Indoartemon parallelilabris''
D. S. Do & T. S. Nguyen, 2020
* ''
Indoartemon prestoni''
(Gude, 1903)
* ''
Indoartemon tridens''
(Möllendorff, 1898)
* ''
Indoartemon vietnamensis''
Thach & F. Huber, 2020
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Indoartemon eburnea''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1861): synonym of ''Indoartemon eburneus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1861)
References
* Forcart, L. (1946). Indoartemon subgen. nov. for Odontartemon Kobelt, 1905 (non Pfeiffer, 1856); Streptaxidae. Journal of Conchology. 22 (9): 215
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Streptaxidae
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