''Cylindrovertilla'' is a
genus of minute, 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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial 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 includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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 esti ...
s or
micromolluscs in the family
Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cylindrovertilla'' include:
* ''
Cylindrovertilla kingi
''Cylindrovertilla kingi'', common name King's amber pupasnail, is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.
Distri ...
'' (Cox, 1864)
References
External links
Australian Biological Resources Study info
Vertiginidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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