''Socotora'' is a

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of small

operculate An operculum (; ) is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor that exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails, including the Helicinidae, Cyclophoridae, A ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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s in the family

Pomatiidae The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae. This fam ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Socotora Pallary, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995129 on 2022-06-17

Species

* '' Socotora albicans'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1839) * ''

Socotora auricularis ''Socotora'' is a genus of small Operculum (gastropod), operculate land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Socotora Pallary, 1925. Accessed through: World ...

'' (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) * '' Socotora clathratula'' (Récluz, 1843) * '' Socotora helicoides'' Neubert, 2009 * '' Socotora naticoides'' (Récluz, 1843)

References

* Bourguignat, J.-R. (1882). Mission G. Révoil au pays Çomalis. Faune et Flore. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, 1-108 pp., 4 pls + 2 unnumbered pls (anatomy). Paris (Jules Tremblay) * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. * Pomatiidae Gastropod genera {{Pomatiidae-stub