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''Zachrysia'' 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 ...
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 ...
mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family
Zachrysiidae Zachrysiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Sagdoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Zachrysiidae D. G. Robinson, Sei & Rosenberg, 2017. Accessed through: World Regi ...
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Species

Species within the genus ''Zachrysia'' are majorly Cuban endemics and include: * '' Zachrysia auricoma'' (Férussac, 1821) *'' Zachrysia baracoensis'' (Gutiérrez in Pfeiffer, 1858) *'' Zachrysia bayamensis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) *'' Zachrysia emarginata'' (Gundlach in Pfeiffer,. 1859) *'' Zachrysia flavicoma'' Pilsbry, 1929 * † '' Zachrysia fraterna'' Ross, 1988 *'' Zachrysia gibarana'' Pilsbry, 1929 *'' Zachrysia guanensis'' (Poey, 1857) *'' Zachrysia guantanamensis'' (Poey, 1857) *'' Zachrysia gundlachiana'' Pilsbry, 1929 *'' Zachrysia petitiana'' (d'Orbigny, 1842) *'' Zachrysia proboscidea'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) * '' Zachrysia provisoria'' (Pfeiffer, 1858) *'' Zachrysia rangeliana'' (Pfeiffer, 1854) *'' Zachrysia scabrosa'' (Poey, 1854) *'' Zachrysia torrei'' (Henderson, 1916) * ''
Zachrysia trinitaria ''Zachrysia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Zachrysiidae. Species Species within the genus ''Zachrysia'' are majorly Cuban endemics and include: * '' Zachrysia auricoma'' (Féru ...
'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1858)


References


Further reading

* Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Studies on West Indian Mollusks: The Genus Zachrysia". ''
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Sagdoidea Gastropod genera Taxa named by Henry Augustus Pilsbry {{Stylommatophora-stub