''Vallonia eiapopeia'' is a
species
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of small, air-breathing
land snail, a
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod 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 ...
in the family
Valloniidae
Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Valloniidae Morse, 1864. Accessed through: Worl ...
.
[Volker Fahlbusch, Zhuding Qiu und Gerhard Storch: ''The Neogene mammalian faunas of Ertemte and Harr Obo in Nei Mongol, China. 1. Report on field work in 1980 and preliminary results.'' Scientia Sinica, (B) 26: 205–224, Beijing 1983 ]
Description
Distribution
References
External links
Global Names Index entryIndex of New Taxa
Valloniidae
Gastropods described in 1996
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