Messageriella is a
genus of medium-sized 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 subfamily Phaedusinae of the family
Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a
clausilium.
[Messageriella gargominyi Páll-Gergely & Szekeres, 2017]
Species
* ''
Messageriella gargominyi''
Páll-Gergely & Szekeres, 2017
* ''
Messageriella gregoi''
(Szekeres & Thach, 2017)
References
* Páll-Gergely B. & Szekeres M. (2017). New and little known Clausiliidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Laos and southern Vietnam. Journal of Conchology. 42(6): 507–521.
Clausiliidae
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