''Eremarionta'' 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
Helminthoglyptidae
The Helminthoglyptinae are a subfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the family Xanthonychidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helminthoglyptinae Pilsbry, 1939. Accessed through: World ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Helminthoglypta'' include:
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White desert snail (''Eremarionta immaculata'')
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Thousand Palms desert snail (''Eremarionta millepalmarum'')
*
Morongo desert snail
The Morongo desert snail (''Eremarionta morongoana'') is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
It is endemic to California in the Western United States.
It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−M ...
(''Eremarionta morongoana'')
References
Helminthoglyptidae
Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Gastropod genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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