''Tanychlamys'' is a large
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 ...
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 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 ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Ariophantidae
Ariophantidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the Taxonomy of ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tanychlamys'' include:
* ''
Tanychlamys amboinensis
''Tanychlamys amboinensis'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ariophantidae. The species has an extended mantle, the mantle collar, and caudal horn on the tail. ...
''
(von Martens, 1864)
* ''
Tanychlamys ceromatica''
(Morelet, 1881)
* ''
Tanychlamys clessini''
Westerlund, 1902[Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories"]
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* '' Tanychlamys indica'' Benson, 1832
* '' Tanychlamys kasnakowi'' (Westerlund, 1898)
* '' Tanychlamys tersa'' (Issel, 1874)
* '' Tanychlamys turanica'' Martens, 1874
* '' Tanychlamys vitrinoides'' (Deshayes, 1831)
References
* Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219
Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.
Pfeiffer, L. (1855-1856). Versuch einer Anordnung der Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 2(3): 112
Benson, W. H. (1834). Observations on a collection of land and freshwater shells, formed in the Gangetic provinces of India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2: 89-91
Baker, H. B. (1938). Bensonies, new name for Bensonia Pfeiffer. Nautilus. 52(1): 33.
Ariophantidae
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by William Henry Benson
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