Ancotrema

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Ancotrema
Ancotrema sportella ssp. sportella.jpg
Ancotrema sportella ssp. sportella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Haplotrematidae
Genus: Ancotrema
H. B. Baker, 1931 [1]

Ancotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Haplotrematidae.

This genus is sometimes considered to be a subgenus of Haplotrema . Haplotrema and Ancotrema cannot be distinguished only on the basis of their shells, but can be distinguished on the basis of their detailed internal anatomy. [2]

The genus Ancotrema contains the following species: [3] [4]

References

  1. Baker, Horace B. 1931. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 82: 405-409.
  2. Pilsbry, Henry A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 2(1): 225-230.
  3. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database
  4. Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online).