''Xerolenta'' 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 ...

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s in the

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Geomitridae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...

, the harry snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerolenta Monterosato, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996344 on 2022-08-03

Species

Species in the genus ''Xerolenta'' include:''Species in genus Xerolenta ''
AnimalBase, accessed 4 May 2009. ;Synonyms: * ''Xerolenta candicans'' Pfeiffer, 1841: synonym of ''

Helicella obvia ''Helicella'' is a genus of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaB ...

'' (Menke, 1828) * ''Xerolenta razlogi'' , (Pintér, 1969): synonym of ''Xerolenta obvia razlogi'' (L. Pintér, 1969) ;Taxon inquiriendum: * ''Xerolenta depulsa'' (L. Pintér, 1969)

References

* Kobelt, W. (1892). Literaturbericht. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 24 (7/8): 149–152. Frankfurt am Main * Schütt, H. (1962). Eine gekielte Helicella aus Thrazien. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 91 (4/6): 151–156. Frankfurt am Main * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017 Geomitridae {{Geomitridae-stub