''Tacheocampylaea raspailii'' is a species 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 ...

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mollusk in the family Helicidae. This species is endemic to

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

, France. This name has been sometimes used, incorrectly, in the scientific literature to refer to any of the 27 names that have been given to species of Corsican molluscs in the genus ''

Tacheocampylaea ''Tacheocampylaea'' is a genus of air-breathing, land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod Mollusc, mollusks in the subfamily Murellinae of the family Helicidae, the typical snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. T ...

''.

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Tacheocampylaea Gastropods described in 1826 Endemic molluscs of Metropolitan France Molluscs of Europe Endemic fauna of Corsica Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Helicidae-stub