''Rhysotina'' is a genus of minute, air-breathing
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,
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 ...
mollusks or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
s in the subfamily
Rhysotininae of the family
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Some spec ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Rhysotina Ancey, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874856 on 2022-04-11]
Species
Species within the genus ''Rhysotina'' include:
* ''
Rhysotina hepatizon
''Rhysotina'' is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Rhysotininae of the family Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-sl ...
''
(Gould, 1845)
* ''
Rhysotina sublaevis''
G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2016
* ''
Rhysotina welwitschi''
(Morelet, 1866)
References
* Morelet, A., 1866. - --Coquilles nouvelles recueillies par le Dr. Fr. Welwitsch dans l'Afrique équatoriale et particulièrement dans les provinces d'Angola et de Benguela. Journal de Conchyliologie 14: 153-163
* Morelet A.
1868" 1867 Voyage du Dr Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguella (Afrique équinoxiale). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, p. 102 pp, 9 pls
* Holyoak D.T. & Holyoak G.A. (2016). Revision of Rhysotina (Gastropoda: Urocyclidae) land-snails endemic to the West African island of São Tomé. Journal of Conchology. 42(3): 59-72
Urocyclidae
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