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''Brazieria'' 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 ...
s,
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
Trochomorphidae Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has be ...
.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Brazieria Ancey, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995236 on 2020-11-25


Species

Species within the genus ''Brazieria'' include: * '' Brazieria erasa'' H. B. Baker, 1941 * '' Brazieria minuscula'' H. B. Baker, 1941 * '' Brazieria obesa'' H. B. Baker, 1941 * '' Brazieria velata'' (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Brazieria entomostoma''(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841): synonym of '' Entomostoma entomostoma'' (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) * ''Brazieria lutaria''H. B. Baker, 1941 : synonym of '' Probrazieria lutaria'' (H. B. Baker, 1941) (original combination)


References

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


External links


Ancey, C. F. (1887). Description of new genera or sub-genera of Helicidae. The Conchologists' Exchange. 2(2):22-23

Nomenclator Zoologicus info

Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370.
Gastropod genera Taxa named by César Marie Félix Ancey Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Trochomorphidae-stub