''Rhachistia rhodotaenia'' is a species of air-breathing
land snail, a
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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 e ...
in the family
Cerastidae
Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
.
''Rhachistia rhodotaenia'' is the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
of the genus ''
Rhachistia''.
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in Africa.
References
Further reading
*
Kobelt W. (1909
''Die Molluskenausbeute der Erlangerschen Reise in Nordost-Afrika. Ein Beitrag zur Molluskengeographie von Afrika.''Frankfurt am Main
page 16Table 2
figure 7-17.
Cerastidae
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