''Halongella'' 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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Plectopylidae.
The generic name is derived from the
Halong Bay, where these snails occur.
Species
Species in the genus ''Plectopylis'' include:
* ''
Halongella fruhstorferi'' (Möllendorff, 1901)
* ''
Halongella schlumbergeri
''Halongella schlumbergeri'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.
''Halongella schlumbergeri'' the type species of the genus ''Halongella''.
Distrib ...
'' (Morlet, 1886) - type species of the genus ''Halongella''
References
Plectopylidae
Gastropod genera
Invertebrates of Vietnam
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