''Streptartemon'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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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
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Streptaxinae of the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
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Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Streptartemon'' includes South America:
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Brazil
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Bolivia
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Colombia
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Venezuela
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Guyana
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[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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Species
Species within the genus ''Streptartemon'' include:
* ''
Streptartemon abunaensis''
(Baker, 1914)
* ''
Streptartemon comboides''
(d’Orbigny, 1835)
* ''
Streptartemon cookeanus''
(Baker, 1914)
* ''
Streptartemon crossei''
(Pfeiffer, 1867)
* ''
Streptartemon cryptodon''
( Moricand, 1851)
* ''
Streptartemon cumingianus''
(Pfeiffer, 1849)
* ''
Streptartemon decipiens''
(Crosse, 1865)
* ''
Streptartemon deformis''
(Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Streptartemon deplanchei''
(Drouet, 1859)
* ''
Streptartemon elatus''
( Moricand, 1846)
* ''
Streptartemon extraneus''
Haas, 1955
* ''
Streptartemon glaber''
(Pfeiffer, 1849)
* ''
Streptartemon laevigatus''
(d'Orbigny, 1835)
* ''
Streptartemon quixadensis'' (Baker, 1914)
* ''
Streptartemon streptodon''
( Moricand, 1851)[ Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". ''Rev. Biol. Trop.'' 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract)]
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* ''
Streptartemon waukeen''
Salvador & C.M. Cunha, 2020
* ''
Streptartemon zischkai''
(Haas, 1952)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Streptartemon candeanus''
(Petit, 1842):
synonym of ''
Streptaxis candei''
Petit de la Saussaye, 1842
* ''Streptartemon dejectus''
(Petit, 1842):
synonym of ''
Odontartemon dejectus''
(Moricand, 1836) (junior homonym of ''Helix dejecta''
Moricand, 1836)
* ''Streptartemon huberi''
Thach, 2016: synonym of ''
Indoartemon huberi''
(Thach, 2016) (original combination)
* ''Streptartemon quixadensis''
icaccepted as ''Streptartemon quixadaensis''
(F. Baker, 1914) (misspelling)
References
* d'Orbigny, A., 1835 Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la République orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentina, la Patagonie, la République de Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833, Tome cinquième, 3eme partie : Mollusques, Atlas, p. Pl 3-8, 17-23, 25, 55
External links
Kobelt, W. (1905-1906). Die Raublungenschnecken (Agnatha). Abtheilung 2, Streptaxidae und Daudebardiidae. In: Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini & Chemnitz, ed. 2. Bd. 1, Abt. 12B, Theil 2: 211 pp. Nürnberg, Bauer & Raspe.[pp. 1-96, pls 42-59 (1905); 97-211, pls 60-71 (1906)]. Nürnberg: 1-211.
Streptaxidae
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