Omphalotropis Latilabris
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''Omphalotropis latilabris'' is a species of minute salt marsh snail with an operculum, a terrestrial
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, or
micromollusk A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
, in the family
Assimineidae Assimineidae is a family of minute snails, also known as palmleaf snails, with an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Rissoidae. Many of these very small snails live in intermediate habitats, being amphibious betwee ...
. This species is endemic to Guam.


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Fauna of Guam Omphalotropis Assimineidae Gastropods described in 1894 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Assimineidae-stub