''Plectopylis repercussa'' is a

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of air-breathing

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, a 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 ...

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in the family Plectopylidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopylis repercussa (Gould, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1327859 on 2021-03-09 ''Plectopylis bensoni'' is the

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of the genus ''Plectopylis''. The

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''bensoni'' is in honour of malacologist William Henry Benson.

Distribution

This snail occurs in

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References

External links

Gould, A. A. (1856). Descriptions of new species of shells. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6: 11-16

Pfeiffer, L. (1845). Uebersicht der mit inneren Lamellen versehenen Helix-Arten. Zeitschrift füt Malakozoologie. 2: 81–87.

Gude, G. K. (1914). Mollusca-II. Trochomorphidae-Janellidae. In: Shipley, A. E. & Marshall, G. A. K. (eds.): The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. XII + 520 pp. London (Taylor & Francis)

Gude, G. K. (1899). Notes on some specimens of Plectopylis. The Journal of Malacology. 7(4): 91

Páll-Gergely, B. (2018). Systematic revision of the Plectopylinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae). European Journal of Taxonomy. (455): 1–114.
Plectopylidae Gastropods described in 1914 {{Pulmonata-stub