Hygromiinae is a taxonomic subfamily of
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
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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.Helicellidae Ihering, 1909
Anatomy
Some snails in genera within this family create and ...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
Tribes
* tribe Hygromiini
Tryon, 1866 - synonym: Cernuellini Schileyko, 1991
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Hygromia
''Hygromia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hygromia Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Re ...
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Risso, 1826
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Zenobiellina''
D. T. Holyoak & G. A. Holyoak, 2018
* tribe Perforatellini
Neiber, Razkin & Hausdorf, 2017
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Chilanodon''
Westerlund, 1897
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Kovacsia
''Kovacsia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kovacsia H. Nordsieck, 1993. Accessed through: Wor ...
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H. Nordsieck, 1993
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Lindholmomneme''
F. Haas, 1936
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Lozekia''
Hudec, 1970
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Monachoides
''Monachoides'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Monachoides Gude & B. B. ...
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Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921
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Noneulota''
Schileyko & Horsák, 2007
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Perforatella''
Schlüter, 1838
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Pseudotrichia''
Schileyko, 1970
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Stygius'' Schileyko, 1970
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Fauna Europeana* Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
Hygromiidae
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