''Siciliaria'' is a

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 small, 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 ...

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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

Clausiliidae Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, very elongate, mostly Gastropod shell#Chirality in gastropods, left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terre ...

, all of which have a

clausilium The clausilium is a calcareous anatomical structure which is found in one group of air-breathing land snails: terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The clausilium is one part of the clausilial appar ...

Species

Species in the genus ''Siciliaria'' include:''Species in genus Siciliaria''
AnimalBase, accessed 1 April 2009. *'' Siciliaria calcarae'' (Philippi, 1844) *'' Siciliaria crassicostata'' (Pfeiffer, 1856) *'' Siciliaria eminens'' (Schmidt, 1868) *'' Siciliaria ernae'' Fauer, 1978 *'' Siciliaria ferrox'' Brandt, 1961 *'' Siciliaria gibbula'' (Rossmässler, 1836) *'' Siciliaria grohmanniana'' (Rossmässler, 1836) *'' Siciliaria incerta'' (Küster, 1861) *'' Siciliaria kobeltiana'' (Küster, 1876) *'' Siciliaria lamellata'' (Rossmässler, 1836) *'' Siciliaria leucophryna'' (Pfeiffer, 1862) *'' Siciliaria nobilis'' (Pfeiffer, 1848) *'' Siciliaria paestana'' (Philippi, 1836) *'' Siciliaria pantocratoris'' (Boettger, 1889) *'' Siciliaria riberothi'' Brandt, 1961 *'' Siciliaria scarificata'' (Pfeiffer, 1856) *'' Siciliaria septemplicata'' (Philippi, 1836) *'' Siciliaria spezialensis'' Nordsieck, 1984 *'' Siciliaria splendens'' Nordsieck, 1996 *'' Siciliaria stigmatica'' (Rossmässler, 1836) *'' Siciliaria tiberii'' (Schmidt, 1868) *'' Siciliaria vulcanica'' (Benoit, 1860)

References

Clausiliidae {{Clausiliidae-stub