''Leptopomoides'' is a genus of air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the family
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
. These snails are restricted to
Western Ghats of
India
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and
Sri Lanka
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.
Seven species are recognized.
Species
* ''
Leptopomoides conulus''
(Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Leptopomoides flammeus''
(Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Leptopomoides halophilus''
(W.H. Benson, 1851)
* ''
Leptopomoides orophilus''
(W.H. Benson, 1853)
* ''
Leptopomoides poecilus''
(Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Leptopomoides taprobanensis''
(Peston, 1909)
* ''
Leptopomoides valvatus''
(O.F. von Möllendorff, 1897)
References
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