Cystopeltidae is a
family
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of air-breathing land
slugs,
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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Punctoidea
Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
Taxonomy
The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within th ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera and species
The family Cystopeltidae has no subfamilies. Genera and species within the family Cystopeltidae include:
* ''
Cystopelta''
** ''
Cystopelta astra''
** ''
Cystopelta bicolor''
** ''
Cystopelta petterdi''
** ''
Cystopelta purpurea''
References
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