''Geotrochus'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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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
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mollusk
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s in the family
Trochomorphidae
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has be ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869645 on 2020-12-20]
Species
Species within the genus ''Geotrochus'' include:
* ''
Geotrochus affinis''
(E. A. Smith, 1894)
* ''
Geotrochus bicolor''
(Martens, 1864)
* ''
Geotrochus conicoides''
(Metcalfe, 1851)
* ''
Geotrochus conus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
* ''
Geotrochus kinabaluensis''
(E. A. Smith, 1895)
* ''
Geotrochus kitteli''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus labuanensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1864)
* ''
Geotrochus meristotrochus''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus multicarinatus''
(Boettger, 1890)
* ''
Geotrochus niahensis''
(Godwin-Austen, 1891)
* ''
Geotrochus oedobasis''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus paraguensis''
(E. A. Smith, 1893)
* ''
Geotrochus rimatus''
Vermeulen, 1997
* ''
Geotrochus scolops''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus spilokeiria''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus subscalaris''
Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* ''
Geotrochus subtricolor''
(Mabille, 1887)
* ''
Geotrochus sylvanus''
(Dohrn & C. Semper, 1862)
* ''
Geotrochus verticillatus''
van Benthem Jutting, 1959
* ''
Geotrochus whiteheadi''
(E. A. Smith, 1895)
* † ''
Geotrochus xinanensis''
Yü & Zhang, 1982
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Gude, G. K. (1913). Definitions of further new genera of Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10: 389-391
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