''Argna'' 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 ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Argnidae Argnidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. Distribution Distribution of Argnidae include Europe: southern and eastern Alps and Carpathian Mountains.

Species

Species within the genus ''Argna'' include:Species in genus ''Argna''
AnimalBase, accessed 18 November 2009. * '' Argna bielzi'' (Rossmässler, 1859) * ''

Argna biplicata ''Argna biplicata'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Argnidae. ;Subspecies: * ''Argna biplicata biplicata'' (Michaud, 1831) * ''Argna biplicata excessiva'' (Gredler, 1856) * ''Arg ...

'' (Michaud, 1831) * '' Argna bourguignatiana'' (Nevill, 1880) * '' Argna ferrari'' (Porro, 1838) * '' Argna szekeresi'' A. Reischütz, N. Steiner-Reischütz & P.L. Reischütz, 2016 * '' Argna thracica'' Subai, 1999 * '' Argna valsabina'' (Spinelli, 1851)

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

External links

Cossmann, M. (1889). Gastéropodes. In: Douvillé, H. (Ed.) Revue de paléontologie pour l'année 1888. Annuaire Géologique Universel. 5: 1079–1109

Wenz, W. (1920). Zur Systematik tertiärer Land- und Süßwassergastropoden. III. Senckenbergiana. 2: 15-19.
Argnidae {{Heterobranchia-stub