''Urticicola'' is a
genus
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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 ...
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
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
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s in the subfamily
Trochulininae of the family
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.Helicellidae Ihering, 1909
Anatomy
Some snails in genera within this family create and ...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Urticicola Lindholm, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934197 on 2023-01-17]
Species
Species within the genus ''Urticicola'' include:
* ''
Urticicola glabellus''
(Draparnaud, 1801) – type species
* ''
Urticicola isaricus''
(Locard, 1882)
* ''
Urticicola mounierensis''
(Caziot, 1909)
* ''
Urticicola moutonii''
(Dupuy, 1847)
* ''
Urticicola perchtae''
Salvador, 2013 – Middle Miocene, Germany
[Salvador R. B. (2013). "The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany): Succineidae, Testacelloidea and Helicoidea". '']Zootaxa
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'' 3721(2): 157–171. .
* † ''
Urticicola schlickumi''
H. Nordsieck, 2014
* ''
Urticicola suberinus''
(Bérenguier, 1882)
* ''
Urticicola umbrosus''
(Pfeiffer, 1828)
;Synonyms:
* ''Urticicola ventouxiana''
(L. Forcart, 1946): synonym of ''Urticicola isaricus ventouxianus''
(Forcart, 1946)
References
* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
Hygromiidae
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm
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