''Granulomelon'' is a
genus
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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
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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
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a Family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families i ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Granulomelon Iredale, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818288 on 2022-01-31]
Species
Species within the genus ''Granulomelon'' include:
* ''
Granulomelon adcockianum''
(Bednall, 1894)
* ''
Granulomelon grandituberculatum''
(Tate, 1894)
* ''
Granulomelon squamulosum''
(Tate, 1894)
;Synonyms:
* ''Granulomelon acerbum''
Solem, 1993: synonym of ''Granulomelon grandituberculatum''
(Tate, 1894)
* ''Granulomelon arcigerens''
(Tate, 1894): synonym of ''Granulomelon adcockianum''
(Bednall, 1894) (junior synonym)
* ''Granulomelon gilleni''
Solem, 1993: synonym of ''Granulomelon grandituberculatum''
(Tate, 1894)
References
External links
Iredale, T. (1933). Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(1): 37-59Iredale, T. (1937). An annotated check list of the land shells of south and central Australia. The South Australian Naturalist. 18(2): 6-59, pls 1-2Criscione F. & Köhler F. (2016). Snails in the desert: Assessing the mitochondrial and morphological diversity and the influence of aestivation behavior on lineage differentiation in the Australian endemic Granulomelon Iredale, 1933 (Stylommatophora: Camaenidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94: 101-112
Camaenidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Gastropod genera
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