''Torresitrachia'' is a

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of air-breathing

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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 ...

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s in the family

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Distribution

This genus is

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, where it occurs in the

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north of

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), the

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and

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Description

Species of ''Torresitrachia'' are characterized by their small to medium-sized, discoidal shell, and a loosely coiling umbilicus. Shells are a uniform brownish in color and exhibit a sculpture of radial ribs or periostracal hairs.Solem, A. 1979. Camaenid land snails from western and central Australia (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Camaenidae) I. Taxa with trans-Australian distribution. ''Records of the Western Australian Museum'', Supplement 10: 5-142.

Species

Species within the genus ''Torresitrachia'' include: * '' Torresitrachia amaxensis'' Solem, 1979 * '' Torresitrachia alenae'' Willan, Köhler, Kessner & Braby, 2009 * '' Torresitrachia bathurstensis'' (Smith, 1894) * '' Torresitrachia cuttacutta'' Willan, Köhler, Kessner & Braby, 2009 * '' Torresitrachia crawfordi'' Solem, 1979 * '' Torresitrachia darwini'' Willan, Köhler, Kessner & Braby, 2009 * '' Torresitrachia funium'' Solem, 1981 * '' Torresitrachia monticola'' Iredale, 1939 * '' Torresitrachia regula'' Solem, 1979 * '' Torresitrachia stipata'' Iredale, 1938 * '' Torresitrachia thedana'' Solem, 1985 * '' Torresitrachia torresiana'' (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) * '' Torresitrachia wallacei'' Willan, Köhler, Kessner & Braby, 2009 * '' Torresitrachia weaberana'' Solem, 1979

References

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