| Libera | |
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| Libera tumuloides shells | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Endodontidae |
| Genus: | Libera Garrett, 1881 [1] |
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Libera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Endodontidae. [2] [3]
Originally the genus Libera was placed within the family Charopidae. [4]
Species in the genus Libera include: [2]
The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881. Garrett's type description reads as follows: [4]
Shell small, widely umbilicated, umbilicus (in adults) strongly constricted so as to form a cavernous or pouch-like cavity; whorls 7-9, costulate or striate, last one angulata or carinate, rarely rounded; aperture subrhomboidal or securiform; peristome thin, simple, straight; parietal region with one or two, and the palate with (rarely without) two or three, internal laminae; columella emarginate and furnished with a spiral fold.
These snails lay their eggs into the umbilicus of their own shells. [5]
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [4]