''Multidentula'' is a
genus
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of minute air-breathing
land snail
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, a
terrestrial
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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
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mollusk
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in the family
Enidae
Enidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Enidae B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Multidentula'' include:
* ''
Multidentula lamellifera''
(Rossmässler, 1858)
* ''
Multidentula nachicevanjensis''
(Hudec, 1972)
* ''
Multidentula ovularis''
(Olivier, 1801)
* ''
Multidentula pupoides''
(Krynicki, 1833)
* ''
Multidentula reducta''
Bank, Menkhorst & Neubert, 2016
* ''
Multidentula ridens''
(Nägele, 1906)
* ''
Multidentula squalina''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
* ''
Multidentula stylus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
References
* Lindholm, W. A. (1925). Nachtrag zur Synonymie einiger Gattungen der Enidae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 57 (4): 140–142. Frankfurt am Main
* Schileyko, A.A. (1978). Issledovanie tipovykh vidov nekotorykh taksonov rodovoj gruppy v semejstve Buliminidae (= Enidae) (Gastropoda). 3. Vidy Kryma i Kavkaza. Voprosy sistemy semejstva. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57 (6): 834–850. Moskva. A study of type species in some taxa of the generic group in the family Buliminidae (= Enidae) (Gastropoda). 3. Species of Crimea and Caucasus. Problems of taxonomy of the family].
* Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
Enidae
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm
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