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''Eremarionta'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
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 ...
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Species

Species within the genus ''Helminthoglypta'' include: * White desert snail (''Eremarionta immaculata'') * 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 {{Helminthoglyptidae-stub