''Keraea'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

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 ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. 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 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

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Keraea Gude, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1000309 on 2022-07-22

Species

Species within the genus ''Keraea'' include: * ''

Keraea bertholdiana ''Keraea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Keraea Gude, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www. ...

'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1852) * ''

Keraea deflorata ''Keraea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Geomitridae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mo ...

'' (R. T. Lowe, 1855) (uncertain) * † ''

Keraea garachicoensis ''Keraea garachicoensis'' is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae. ''Keraea garachicoensis'' is considered to be extinct. Distribution This species was endemic to ...

'' (Wollaston, 1878) extinct * '' Keraea gorgonarum'' (Dohrn, 1869)

References

*http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02911p049.pdf
fauna-eu.org
*http://wwwlistado.blogspot.com/2011/04/familia-patulidae-tryon-1866.html Geomitridae Gastropod genera {{Geomitridae-stub