''Trukrhysa'' 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 ...
mollusks in the family
Chronidae
Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea within the superorder Eupulmonata. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Chronidae Thiele, 1931. Accessed through: ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Trukrhysa H. B. Baker, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995542 on 2021-02-28] It is
monotypic, being represented by the single species ''Trukrhysa pachystoma'' which is
endemic to the
Caroline Islands,
Micronesia.
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Pfeiffer, L. (1841). Symbolae ad historiam Heliceorum. Sectio prima [vol. 1]. Kassel: Th. Fischer. 88 pp*
Gastropods of Micronesia
Chronidae
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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