''Mastigophallus'' is a
genus
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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 ...
mollusk
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s in the subfamily Trissexodontinae of the family
Trissexodontidae
Trissexodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies. The famil ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mastigophallus P. Hesse, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996972 on 2021-06-25]
Species
* ''
Mastigophallus rangianus''
(Michaud, 1831)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Mastigophallus patellinus''
(Oppenheim, 1890): synonym of † ''
Paracanariella patellina''
(Oppenheim, 1890)
* † ''Mastigophallus vialai''
ic synonym of † ''
Paracanariella vialaii''
(De Boissy, 1840) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
*
Hesse, P. (1918). Die Subfamilie Helicodontinae. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 50 (3): 99-110. Frankfurt am Main
Trissexodontidae
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