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''Glyphyalinia'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of 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 Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. 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 (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the family
Zonitidae Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Zonitoidea. Zonitidae is the only family in the superfamily Zonitoidea. T ...
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Species

Species within the genus ''Glyphyalinia'' include: *''
Glyphyalinia indentata ''Glyphyalinia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestri ...
'' (Say, 1823) *''
Glyphyalinia pecki ''Glyphyalinia pecki'' is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae. This species is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic ...
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Glyphyalinia umbilicata ''Glyphyalinia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zonitidae. Species Species within the genus ''Glyphyalinia'' include: *''Glyphyalinia indentata'' (Say, 1823) *''Glyphyalinia pecki ...
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Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Gastropod genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Zonitidae-stub