''Plicuteria lubomirski'' is a

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of air-breathing

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, 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 ...

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in the family

Hygromiidae Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. Helicellidae Ihering, 1909 Anatomy Some snails in genera within this family create ...

, the hairy snails and their allies.

Taxonomy

The spelling of the name is currently disputed. In the original source the name was spelled ''Helix'' (''Fruticicola'') ''Lubomirski'', to be corrected to ''lubomirski'' under the

ICZN Code The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its publisher, the ...

. Later many authors spelled the name ''lubomirskii'', but some other authors used the spelling ''lubomirski''. The 4th edition of the Code (effective since 2000) gives no clear ruling (previous editions of the Code had a clear ruling that ''lubomirski'' was the correct form), so this case will remain disputed. Schileyko (1978)Schileyko A. A. (February 1978) "On the systematics of ''Trichia'' s. lat. (Pulmonata: Helicoidea: Hygromiidae)". ''

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56. placed this species in the subgenus ''Plicuteria'' Schileyko, 1978. However, based on molecular analyses, this species may not actually belong in the genus ''

Trochulus ''Trochulus'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily subfamily Trochulininae of the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. Taxonomy ''Trichia'' Hartmann, 1840 is ...

''.

Distribution

This species is known to occur in: *

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Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41 (1): 91-109.

References

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''Trochulus lubomirski''
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