''Vallonia terraenovae'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of small, 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 ...

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: World R ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Vallonia terraenovae Gerber, 1996. Acces It was described by Gerber in 1996. ''Vallonia terraenovae'' is part of the genus ''

Vallonia ''Vallonia'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vallonia Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Regist ...

'' and the family of grass snails. No subspecies are listed in the ''Catalog of Life''. The species is part of the ''Lost Species'' list prepared by the Global Wildlife Conservation. Its conservation status is ''Not Evaluated''.

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