Xenodiscula Venezuelensis
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''Xenodiscula venezuelensis'' 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
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 ...
in the family
Sagdidae Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea. So ...
. This species is found in
Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
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References

Baker, Horace Burrinton. 1926: The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan-Williamson Expedition in Venezuela. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan. Nº 167 venezuelensis Gastropods described in 1919 {{Sagdidae-stub