''Charpentieria'' is a
genus
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of small, very elongate, 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
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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 ().
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mollusk
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s in the family
Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, very elongate, mostly Gastropod shell#Chirality in gastropods, left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terre ...
, the door snails, all of which have a
clausilium
The clausilium is a calcareous anatomical structure which is found in one group of air-breathing land snails: terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The clausilium is one part of the clausilial appar ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Charpentieria Stabile, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996058 on 2018-09-03]
Species
Species within the genus ''Charpentiera'' include:
* ''
Charpentieria calcarae'' (Philippi, 1844)
* ''
Charpentieria clavata'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria crassicostata'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Charpentieria dyodon'' (S. Studer, 1820)
* ''
Charpentieria eminens'' (A. Schmidt, 1868)
* ''
Charpentieria ernae'' (Fauer, 1978)
* ''
Charpentieria ferrox'' (R. A. Brandt, 1961)
* ''
Charpentieria gibbula'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria grohmanniana'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria incerta'' (Küster, 1861)
* ''
Charpentieria itala (''G. von Martens, 1824)
* ''
Charpentieria kobeltiana'' (Küster, 1876)
* ''
Charpentieria lamellata'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria leucophryna'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
* ''
Charpentieria nobilis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
* ''
Charpentieria ornata'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria paestana'' (Philippi, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria pantocratoris'' (O. Boettger, 1889)
* ''
Charpentieria piceata'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria riberothi'' (R. A. Brandt, 1961)
* ''
Charpentieria scarificata'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Charpentieria septemplicata'' (Philippi, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria spezialensis'' (H. Nordsieck, 1984)
* ''
Charpentieria splendens'' (H. Nordsieck, 1996)
* ''
Charpentieria stenzii'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria stigmatica'' (Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''
Charpentieria tiberii'' (A. Schmidt, 1868)
* ''
Charpentieria vulcanica'' (Benoit, 1860)
References
* Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Clausiliidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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