''Causa'' is a genus of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the family
Helicidae
Helicidae is a large, diverse family of small to large, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."
A number of species in this family are valued as food items, including ''Cornu aspersum'' (formerly ''Helix aspersa'') the ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Causa Schileyko, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871095 on 2020-07-30]
Species
Species within the genus ''Causa'' include:
* ''
Causa holosericea
''Causa holosericea'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Causa holosericea (S. Studer, 1820). Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
(S. Studer, 1820)
References
* Groenenberg D.S.J., Subai P. & Gittenberger E. (2016). ''Systematics of Ariantinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae), a new approach to an old problem''. Contributions to Zoology. 85(1): 37-65
External links
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Helicidae
Gastropod genera
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