''Iredaleoconcha'' is a
genus 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 or
semislug
Semi-slugs, also spelled semislugs, are land gastropods whose shells are too small for them to retract into, but not quite vestigial. The shell of some semi-slugs may not be easily visible on casual inspection, because the shell may be covered ...
s,
terrestrial 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 includ ...
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 ...
mollusks in the family
Euconulidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Iredaleoconcha Preston, 1913. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818324 on 2021-02-28]
This genus was named in honor of the
malacologist Tom Iredale.
Species
Species within the genus ''Iredaleoconcha'' include:
* ''
Iredaleoconcha caporaphe''
Preston, 1913
* ''
Iredaleoconcha inopina''
Preston, 1913
References
External list
Nomenclator Zoologicus infoPreston, H. B. (1913). Characters of new genera and species of terrestrial Mollusca from Norfolk Island. The Annals and magazine of natural history; including zoology, botany, and geology. Eighth series. 12 (72): 522-538. London
Euconulidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Gastropod genera
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