''Chalicopoma'' is a genus of minute, salt-tolerant

snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

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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 ...

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Assimineidae Assimineidae is a family (biology), family of small snails, also known as palmleaf snails, with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea. Many of these very small snails live in i ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Chalicopoma Möllendorff, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057402 on 2021-11-08

Species

* '' Chalicopoma laevigatum'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894) * '' Chalicopoma semicostulatum'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent freshwater/brackish Gastropoda of the World. Last update: January 24, 2018

External links

Quadras, J. F.; Möllendorf, O. F. von. (1894). Diagnoses specierum novarum a J. F. Quadras in insulis Mariannis collectarum. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 26(1-2): 13-22, 33-42
{{Taxonbar, from=Q61679009 Assimineidae Gastropod genera