''Nesovitrea'' is a
genus
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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
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 ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Oxychilidae
Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Distribution
The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Pale ...
, the glass snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Nesovitrea'' include:
* ''
Nesovitrea binneyana
''Nesovitrea binneyana'', common name the blue glass snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
This species is named in honor of the American malacolo ...
''
* ''
Nesovitrea dalliana
''Nesovitrea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Nesovitrea'' include:
* ''Nesovitrea binneyana''
* '' Nesovitrea da ...
''
* ''
Nesovitrea hammonis
''Perpolita hammonis'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrodontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Perpolita hammonis (Strøm, 1765). Accessed through: World Register of ...
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Synonyms:
* ''
Nesovitrea electrina
''Nesovitrea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Nesovitrea'' include:
* ''Nesovitrea binneyana''
* ''Nesovitrea dal ...
''
(Gould, 1841), accepted as ''
Perpolita electrina''
(Gould, 1841)
Distribution
This genus occurs in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
.
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Oxychilidae
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