''Rectartemon'' is a

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of air-breathing

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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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s in the family

Streptaxidae Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi. Stre ...

Distribution

The distribution of the genus ''Rectartemon'' includes: *

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* Caribbean IslandsSutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". ''

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Species

Species within the genus ''Rectartemon'' include: * '' Rectartemon apertus'' (Martens, 1868) * '' Rectartemon candidus'' (Spix, 1827) * ''

Rectartemon cappilosus ''Rectartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae. Distribution The distribution of the genus ''Rectartemon'' includes: * List of non-marine mollus ...

'' (Pilsbry, 1897) * '' Rectartemon cryptodon'' (Moricand, 1851) * '' Rectartemon depressus'' (Heynemann, 1868)Agudo-Padrón A. I. (14 May) 2009
''Recent Terrestrial and Freshwater Molluscs of Rio Grande do Sul State, RS, Southern Brazil Region: A Comprehensive Synthesis and Check List''
. Visaya April 2009, pages 1-13. * '' Rectartemon helios'' (Pilsbry, 1897) * '' Rectartemon hylephilus'' (d’Orbigny, 1835) * '' Rectartemon intermedius'' (Albers, 1857) * '' Rectartemon mulleri'' (Thiele, 1927) * '' Rectartemon politus'' (Fulton, 1899) * '' Rectartemon rollandi'' (Bernardi, 1857) * '' Rectartemon spixianus'' (Pfeiffer, 1841) * '' Rectartemon wagneri'' (Pfeiffer, 1841) Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". ''Rev. Biol. Trop.'' 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract)
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References

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