''Morlina'' is a
genus of small 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 ...
s in the family
Oxychilidae
Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Distribution
The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palear ...
, the glass snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Morlina A. J. Wagner, 1914. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996643 on 2021-08-16]
Species
* ''
Morlina glabra
''Morlina glabra'' is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Oxychilidae.
Subspecies:
* ''Morlina glabra ercica'' (Benoit, 1859)
* ''Morlina glabra glabra'' (Rossmässler, 1835)
* ''Morlina glabra harlei'' (Fagot, 1884)
* ''Morlina glab ...
''
(Rossmässler, 1835)
* ''
Morlina urbanskii
''Morlina'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Morlina A. J. Wagner, 1914. Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...
''
(A. Riedel, 1963)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
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Oxychilidae
Gastropod genera