''Norelona '' is a monospecific

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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 ...

, a

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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 ...

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in the family

Elonidae Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). ...

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Species

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Norelona pyrenaica ''Norelona pyrenaica'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae. ''Norelona pyrenaica'' is the type species of the genus '' Norelona''. Shell description The shell is narrowl ...

'' (Draparnaud, 1805)

References

* Nordsieck, H. (1986). Das System der tertiären Helicoidea Mittel- und Westeuropas (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Heldia. 1(4): 109-120. * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. {{taxonbar, from=Q18591393 Elonidae