''Laevaricella'' is a
genus 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 ...
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
Oleacinidae
Oleacinidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Laevaricella'' include:
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Laevaricella glabra
''Laevaricella'' is a genus of tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oleacinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Laevaricella'' include:
* '' Laevaricella glabra'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)
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'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)
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Laevaricella guadeloupensis
''Laevaricella'' is a genus of tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oleacinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Laevaricella'' include:
* '' Laevaricella glabra'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)
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'' (Pfeiffer, 1856)
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Laevaricella interrupta
''Laevaricella'' is a genus of tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oleacinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Laevaricella'' include:
* '' Laevaricella glabra'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)
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'' (Shuttleworth, 1854)
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Laevaricella perlucens
''Laevaricella perlucens'' is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oleacinidae.
Distribution
''Laevaricella perlucens'' is endemic to Dominica. The type locality is "on Morne ...
'' (Guppy, 1868)
[Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". '']Zoologische Mededelingen
''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared ...
'' 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
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Laevaricella semitarum
''Laevaricella'' is a genus of tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oleacinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Laevaricella'' include:
* '' Laevaricella glabra'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)
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'' (Pfeiffer, 1842) - type species
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Laevaricella playa
''Laevaricella'' is a genus of tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oleacinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Laevaricella'' include:
* '' Laevaricella glabra'' (Pfeiffer, 1846)
* ' ...
'' H. B. Baker, 1940
[van der Schalie H. (1948). "The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico". ''Miscellaneous Publications'', Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 70: 134 pp., page 66. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/5631]
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Oleacinidae