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''Falkneria'' 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
mollusks 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 esti ...
in the family
Hygromiidae Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. Helicellidae Ihering, 1909 Anatomy Some snails in genera within this family create a ...
, the hairy snails and their allies. This genus has incorrectly been referred to as "''Falkneri''", which was an orthographical error by Giusti & Manganelli in 1990.


Species

Species within the genus ''Falkneri'' include: * ''
Falkneria camerani ''Falkneria camerani'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodontidae. This species is endemic to northwestern Italy. It is only known from five locations in Aosta Valley, Cerv ...
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References

Hygromiidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Hygromiidae-stub