''Ennea'' 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
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
.
''Ennea'' is the type genus of the subfamily
Enneinae.
This genus has become a synonym of ''
Ptychotrema''
L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Ennea'' is
Afrotropical
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'' 160: 1-16. . and includes:
Species
Species within the genus ''Ennea'' include:
* ''Ennea arthuri''
Preston, 1913: synonym of ''
Gulella odhneriana''
Dupuis, 1923
* ''
Ennea cylindracea
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.A. Smith, 1897 (taxon inquirendum)
Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Ennea aliena''
Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: synonym of ''Indoennea aliena''
(Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) accepted as ''
Sinoennea aliena''
(Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) (original combination)
References
* Bank, R. (2017). ''Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World.'' Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
*
Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". ''
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
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'' 1865
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* Preston H. B. (1914). "Characters of three new species of ''Ennea'' from southern Nigeria". ''
Proceedings of the Malacological Society'', London 11
134136.
Streptaxidae
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