''Entomostoma'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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
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 es ...
s in the family
Trochomorphidae
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Entomostoma H. B. Baker, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995240 on 2020-11-25]
Species
Species within the genus ''Entomostoma'' include:
* ''
Entomostoma entomostoma
''Entomostoma entomostoma'' is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Entomostoma entomostoma (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841). Accessed ...
''
(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
External links
Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370
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