''Stenotrema calvescens'',

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Chattanooga slitmouth, is a

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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 ...

, 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 subfamily Triodopsinae of the family

Polygyridae Polygyridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Polygyridae Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species a ...

."''Stenotrema calvescens'' (Hubricht, 1961)
. ITIS, accessed 31 May 2022. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Stenotrema hirsutum (Say, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1352166 on 2022-06-04

References

* Grimm, F.W. (1971). Two new Stenotrema, with notes on S. hirsutum and S. barbatum. The Nautilus, 85(1): 12-17. * Richards, H. G. (1934). A list of the mollusks of the District of Columbia and vicinity. The American Midland Naturalist, 15(1): 85-88. * InvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase

External links

Say T. (1817). Descriptions of seven species of American fresh water and land shells, not noticed in the systems. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia 1(1): 13–16, 17–18

Say, T. (1824). Class Mollusca. In: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs Say, Keating, and Calhoun, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c. H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia. 2: 256-266, plates 14-15

Baker, F. C. (1927). Descriptions of new forms of Pleistocene land mollusks from Illinois with remarks on other species. The Nautilus. 40(4): 114-120

Lee, H. G. (2010). Gettleman key to probe of major reversals. American Conchologist. 38(4): 6-11
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