''Strobilops'' 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 ...

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 ...

mollusk 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 ...

s in the family

Strobilopsidae Strobilopsidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea. Taxonomy The family Strobilopsidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the c ...

Species

The genus ''Strobilops'' includes the following species: * ''

Strobilops aeneus ''Strobilops'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Strobilopsidae. Species The genus ''Strobilops'' includes the following species: * '' Strobilops aeneus'' Pilsbry - Bronze pinecone ...

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Strobilops hubbardi ''Discostrobilops hubbardi'' is a land snail of the Americas - colloquially known as the Flatten Pinecone. It was formerly known as ''Strobilops hubbardi'', but that taxon is no longer in use. It is known to be found in Southern parts of the Unit ...

'' (A. D. Brown, 1861)"Mollusca"
. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. * ''

Strobilops labyrinthicus ''Strobilops labyrinthicus'', common name the maze pinecone, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strobilopsidae. Its shell color is reddish brown and it has a h ...

'' (Say, 1817) * '' Strobilops texasianus'' * ''Strobilops'' sp. nov. 1Perez, A.M. (1996)
''Strobilops'' sp. nov. 12006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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References

External links

* http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Strobilops Strobilopsidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Strobilopsidae-stub