''Strobilops'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
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
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s in the family
Strobilopsidae
Strobilopsidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Taxonomy
The family Strobilopsidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to ...
.
Species
The genus ''Strobilops'' includes the following species:
* ''
Strobilops aeneus'' Pilsbry - Bronze pinecone snai
photo* ''
Strobilops hubbardi'' (A. D. Brown, 1861)
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. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
* ''
Strobilops labyrinthicus'' (Say, 1817)
* ''
Strobilops texasianus''
*
''Strobilops'' sp. nov. 1[Perez, A.M. (1996)]
''Strobilops'' sp. nov. 1
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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References
External links
* http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Strobilops
Strobilopsidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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