''Leptinaria'' is a

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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 ...

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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 ...

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s in the family

Achatinidae Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. Well known species include '' Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and '' L ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Leptinaria'' include: * '' Leptinaria ambigua'' Martens, 1898 * '' Leptinaria biolleyi'' Martens, 1898 * '' Leptinaria convoluta'' Martens, 1898 * '' Leptinaria costaricana'' Martens, 1898 * '' Leptinaria crenulata'' Martens, 1898 *'' Leptinaria guatemalensis'' (Crosse & Fischer, 1877) Pérez A. M., Sotelo M., Arana I. & López A. (2008). "Diversidad de moluscos gasterópodos terrestres en la región del Pacífico de Nicaragua y sus preferencias de hábitat". '' Rev. Biol. Trop.'' 56(1): 317-332,
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/ref> * Leptinaria hapaloides Martens, 1898 *'' Leptinaria insignis'' (Smith, 1898) *'' Leptinaria interstriata'' (Tate, 1870) *'' Leptinaria pittieri pittieri'' Martens, 1898 *'' Leptinaria pittieri obliquata'' Martens, 1898 *'' Leptinaria solida'' Martens, 1898 *'' Leptinaria strebeliana'' Pilsbry, 1907 *'' Leptinaria tamaulipensis'' Pilsbry, 1903 *'' Leptinaria unilamellata'' (d’Orbigny, 1837)Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". ''

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'' 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 - synonym: ''Leptinaria lamellata'' (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)Pérez A. M., Sotelo M. & Arana I. (2004). "Altitudinal variation of diversity in landsnail communities from Maderas Volcano, Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Variación altitudinal de la diversidad en comunidades de gasterópodos del Volcán Maderas, Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua". ''Iberus'' 22(1): 133-145
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*''Leptinaria'' sp. - endemic from Nicaragua

References

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