''Xerogyra'' is a genus 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 ...

s, terrestrial

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mollusks in the family

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). M ...

. The genus is distributed in the Italian Peninsula. ''Xerogyra'' species were within the genus ''

Candidula ''Candidula'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, . MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Candidula Kobelt, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

'' until a molecular phylogeny revealed the

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of ''

'' and, the genus ''Xerogyra'' Monterosato, 1892 was recovered.

Species

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

Xerogyra fiorii ''Xerogyra fiorii'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Xerogyra fiorii (Alzona & Alzona Bisach ...

'' (Alzona & Alzona Bisacchi, 1938) * ''

Xerogyra grovesiana ''Xerogyra grovesiana'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. Distribution This species occurs in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) o ...

'' (Paulucci, 1881) * ''

Xerogyra spadae ''Xerogyra spadae'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerogyra spadae (Calcara, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' (Calcara, 1845)

References

* Kobelt, W. (1892). Literaturbericht. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 24 (7/8): 149-152. Frankfurt am Main * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017 {{Commons category Gastropod genera