''Tengchiena'' is a
genus
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of very small 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 ...
s,
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
Microcystidae
''Microcystidae'' is a family of land snails in the order Stylommatophora.
Species
As of 2024, there were 35 genera recognized within the family.
* Genus '' Advena'' Gude, 1913
* Genus '' Greenwoodoconcha'' Preston, 1913
;Subfamily Liardetiina ...
, the hive snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Tengchiena H. B. Baker, 1942. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996302 on 2024-09-22]
Species
Species within the genus ''Tengchiena'' include:
* ''
Tengchiena euroxestus''
(Heude, 1882)
References
External links
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