''Spirorbula'' 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 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 ...

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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 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 ...

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

in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...

, the hairy snails and their allies. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Spirorbula R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996337 on 2022-07-22

Distribution

The distribution of the genus ''Spirorbula'' includes the area from

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in the country of Portugal."Genus taxon summary for ''Spirorbula''"

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Species

Species within the genus ''Spirobula'' include: * '' Spirorbula depauperata'' (R. T. Lowe, 1831) * ''

Spirorbula latens ''Spirorbula latens'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Spirorbula latens (R. T. Lowe, 1852). ...

'' (R. T. Lowe, 1852) * † ''

Spirorbula latina ''Spirorbula'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Spirorbula R. T. ...

'' (Paiva, 1866) * ''

Spirorbula obtecta ''Spirorbula'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Spirorbula R. T. ...

'' (R. T. Lowe, 1852) - type species * ''

Spirorbula squalida ''Spirorbula squalida'' is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Spirorbula squalida (R. T. Lowe, 185 ...

'' (R.T. Lowe, 1852)

References

Geomitridae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Geomitridae-stub