''Glyptoconus'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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 es ...
s in the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.
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.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Glyptoconus'' includes:
*
Busuangga Island,
the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
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* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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'' 160: 1-16. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Glyptoconus'' include:
* ''
Glyptoconus mirus
''Glyptoconus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Glyptoconus'' includes:
* Busuangga Island, the Philippines
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'' Möllendorff - the type species of the genus ''Glyptoconus''
See also
The conodont genus name '' Glyptoconus'' Kennedy, 1981 has been replaced by ''
Colaptoconus
''Colaptoconus'' is an extinct genus of conodont
Conodonts ( Greek ''kōnos'', " cone", + ''odont'', " tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they w ...
'' in 1994.
[Colaptoconus (Conodonta), a replacement name for Glyptoconus Kennedy, 1981, non Glyptoconus von Moellendorff, 1894. David J. Kennedy, Journal of Paleontology, November 1994, volume 68, issue 6]
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References
Streptaxidae
Gastropod genera
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