''Soosia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the family
Helicodontidae
Helicodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Soosia'' include:
* ''
Soosia diodonta
''Soosia diodonta'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodontidae.
Distribution
The distribution of ''Soosia diodonta'' includes south-eastern Europe:
* Eastern Serbia
* We ...
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References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Helicodontidae
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