''Quantula'' is a genus air-breathing, tropical
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. It is 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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the family
Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Some of the species in this family are sin ...
.
Species
The
World Register of Marine Species lists:
*''
Quantula franzhuberi
''Quantula'' is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists:
*'' Quantula franzhuberi'' Thach, 2020
*'' Quantula godw ...
''
Thach, 2020
*''
Quantula godwinausteni
''Quantula'' is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists:
*''Quantula franzhuberi'' Thach, 2020
*'' Quantula godwi ...
''
(Laidlaw, 1931)
*''
Quantula naggsi
''Quantula'' is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists:
*''Quantula franzhuberi'' Thach, 2020
*''Quantula godwin ...
''
Thach & F. Huber, 2020
*''
Quantula simonei''
Thach & F. Huber, 2018
*''
Quantula striata''
(Gray, 1834)
*''
Quantula tenera''
(Möllendorff, 1901)
*''
Quantula weinkauffiana
''Quantula'' is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists:
*''Quantula franzhuberi'' Thach, 2020
*''Quantula godwina ...
''
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370.
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Gastropod genera
Dyakiidae