''Fumonelix'' is a

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of small, 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 ...

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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 (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the

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Polygyridae Polygyridae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Polygyridae Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed thro ...

Species

Species in the genus ''Fumonelix'' include:''Fumonelix''.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). *'' Fumonelix archeri'' – Ocoee covert, Archer's toothed land snail *'' Fumonelix cherohalaensis''Dourson, D. C. (2012)
Four new land snail species from the southern Appalachian Mountains.
''Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science'' 128(1), 1-10. *'' Fumonelix christyi'' – glossy covert *'' Fumonelix jonesiana'' – big-tooth covert, Jones' middle-toothed land snail *'' Fumonelix langdoni'' *'' Fumonelix orestes'' – engraved covert *'' Fumonelix roanensis'' *'' Fumonelix wetherbyi'' – clifty covert *'' Fumonelix wheatleyi'' – cinnamon covert

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3739020 Polygyridae Gastropod genera