''Sauroconcha'' is a
genus of 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 ...
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 ...
s in the family
Camaenidae.
The genus was first described in 2008 by Weihong Zhang and Michael Shea.
The type species is ''Sauroconcha caperteeana''.
Species
Species accepted by WoRMS & within the genus ''Sauroconcha'' include:
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Sauroconcha caperteeana''
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Sauroconcha corneovirens
''Sauroconcha'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae. The genus was first described in 2008 by Weihong Zhang and Michael Shea. The type species is ''Sauroc ...
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Sauroconcha grayi''
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Sauroconcha gulosa''
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Sauroconcha jervisensis''
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Sauroconcha marshalli
''Sauroconcha'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae. The genus was first described in 2008 by Weihong Zhang and Michael Shea. The type species is ''Sauroconcha caperteeana ...
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Sauroconcha maryae
''Sauroconcha'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae. The genus was first described in 2008 by Weihong Zhang and Michael Shea. The type species is ''Sauroconcha caperteeana ...
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Sauroconcha middenensis
''Sauroconcha'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, 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 ai ...
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Sauroconcha sheai''
References
External links
''Sauroconcha'' Images & occurrence datafrom
GBIF
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Camaenidae
Molluscs described in 2008