''Eumecostylus'', or flax snails, are a
genus
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of very large, 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
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
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mollusc
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s in the
family
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Bothriembryontidae
Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
Taxonomy
This family has been named Placostylidae and had no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863055 on 2020-11-14]
Species
Species within this genus include:
* ''
Eumecostylus almiranta''
(Clench, 1941)
* ''
Eumecostylus calus''
(E. A. Smith, 1892)
* ''
Eumecostylus cleryi''
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1850)
* ''
Eumecostylus cylindricus''
(Fulton, 1907)
* ''
Eumecostylus foxi''
(Clench, 1950)
* ''
Eumecostylus fraterculus''
(B. Rensch, 1934)
* ''
Eumecostylus gallegoi''
(Clench, 1941)
* ''
Eumecostylus gardneri''
Delsaerdt, 2010
* ''
Eumecostylus hargravesi''
(Cox, 1871)
* ''
Eumecostylus kirakiraensis'' (B. Rensch, 1934)
* ''
Eumecostylus phenax''
(Clapp, 1923)
* ''
Eumecostylus sanchristovalensis''
(Cox, 1870)
* ''
Eumecostylus scottii''
(Cox, 1873)
* ''
Eumecostylus uliginosus''
(Kobelt, 1891)
* ''
Eumecostylus unicus''
(B. Rensch, 1934)
* ''
Eumecostylus vicinus''
(B. Rensch, 1934)
References
* Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37–131.
* Delsaerdt, A., 2010. Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 1. Placostylidae
External links
J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: EngelmanClench, W.J. (1941). The Land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). ''American Museum Novitates''. 1129: 1-21.
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Bothriembryontidae
Gastropod genera