''Tamayoa'' 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

s in the family

Scolodontidae Scolodontidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or ...

. ''Tamayoa'' is the type genus of the subfamily Tamayoinae.

Species

Species within the genus ''Tamayoa'' include: * ''

Tamayoa banghaasi ''Tamayoa'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Scolodontidae. ''Tamayoa'' is the type genus of the subfamily Tamayoinae. Species Species within the genus ''Tamayoa'' include: * '' Ta ...

'' Thiele - synonym: ''Happia banghaasi'' * '' Tamayoa decolorata'' (Drouët, 1859)Schileyko A. A. (2000). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. Part 6. Rhytidae, Chlamydephoridae, Systrophiidae, Haplotrematidae, Streptaxidae, Spiraxidae, Oleacinidae, Testacellidae". ''Ruthenica'', Supplement 2: 731-880, figs 950-1154. page 758-759.Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". ''

Zoologische Mededelingen ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared ...

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Tamayoa venezuelensis ''Tamayoa'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Scolodontidae. ''Tamayoa'' is the type genus of the subfamily Tamayoinae. Species Species within the genus ''Tamayoa'' include: * '' Ta ...

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References

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Scolodontidae {{Scolodontidae-stub