''Corona'' is a
genus
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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
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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
Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase ...
.
Snails in this genus are restricted in range to central and northern South America. These snails have medium to large elongated shells.
Species
Species within the genus ''Corona'' include:
[ Abbott, R. Tucker, 1989. ''Compendium of Landshells''. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. .]
* ''
Corona atramentarius''
(Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Corona duckei''
Ihering, 1915
* ''
Corona incisa''
(Hupé, 1857) (synonym: ''Bulimus incisus'' Hupé, 1857)
* ''
Corona loroisiana''
(Hupé, 1857)
* ''
Corona perversa''
(Swainson, 1820)
* ''
Corona pfeifferi''
(Hidalgo, 1869)
* ''
Corona regalis''
(Hupé, 1857)
* ''
Corona regina''
(Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Corona regius''
(Férussac)
* ''
Corona ribeiroi''
Ihering, 1915
* ''
Corona rosenbergi''
Strebel, 1909
References
Orthalicidae
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