''Lemniscia'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
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
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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 ...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Lemniscia R. T. Lowe, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996333 on 2022-07-21]
Species
Species within the genus ''Lemniscia'' include:
* ''
Lemniscia galeata''
(R. T. Lowe, 1862)
* ''
Lemniscia michaudi''
(Deshayes, 1832)
;Synonyms:
* ''Lemniscia calva''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of ''Caseolus (Caseolus) calvus''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831) represented as ''
Caseolus calvus''
(R. T. Lowe, 1831)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Nomenclator Zoologicus info Lowe, R. T. (1855 ("1854")). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208
Geomitridae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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