''Keraea'' is a
genus 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 ...
mollusks in the family
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). M ...
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[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Keraea Gude, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1000309 on 2022-07-22]
Species
Species within the genus ''Keraea'' include:
* ''
Keraea bertholdiana
''Keraea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land sna ...
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(L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
* ''
Keraea deflorata''
(R. T. Lowe, 1855) (uncertain)
* † ''
Keraea garachicoensis''
(Wollaston, 1878) extinct
* ''
Keraea gorgonarum''
(Dohrn, 1869)
References
*http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02911p049.pdf
fauna-eu.org*http://wwwlistado.blogspot.com/2011/04/familia-patulidae-tryon-1866.html
Geomitridae
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