''Pachnodus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. 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 o ...

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 inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the family

Cerastidae Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through
World Register of Marine Species
on 2020-12-31

Distribution

The genus ''Pachnodus'' is

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to the

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.Gerlach J. (1999). "Snails of the genus ''Pachnodus'' (Mollusca; Gastropoda; Enidae): their origins and evolution". ''

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Species

Species within the genus ''Pachnodus'' include: subgenus ''Pachnodus'' * '' Pachnodus becketti'' Gerlach, 1994 * '' Pachnodus leroyi'' Bourguignat, 1890 * ''

Pachnodus lionneti ''Pachnodus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed throughWorld Register of ...

'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980 * '' Pachnodus niger'' (Dufo, 1840) ** ''Pachnodus niger niger'' (Dufo, 1840) ** ''Pachnodus niger subfuscus'' Gerlach, 1994 * † '' Pachnodus velutinus'' (Pfeiffer, 1942) * ''Pachnodus niger × velutinus'' * '' Pachnodus sesamorum'' Bourguignat, 1890 subgenus '' Nesiocerastus'' * '' Pachnodus fregatensis'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980 * '' Pachnodus kantilali'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980 * '' Pachnodus ornatus'' (Dufo, 1840) * ''Pachnodus ornatus'' var. ''biornatus'' * '' Pachnodus oxoniensis'' Gerlach, 1994 * ''

Pachnodus praslinus ''Pachnodus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cerastidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed throughWorld Register of Marine Specieson 20 ...

'' Gerlach, 1990 * '' Pachnodus silbouettanus'' Von Mol & Coppois, 1980

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7122053 Cerastidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot