Marinula

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Marinula
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Marinula xanthostoma
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Marinula

King & Broderip, 1832
Synonyms [1]
  • CremnobatesSwainson, 1855
  • MaripythiaIredale, 1936 (unavailable name: no description)

Marinula is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ellobiidae. [1]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Land snail Mollusc

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 gastropod mollusks that have shells. However, it is not always easy to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less amphibious between land and fresh water, and others are relatively amphibious between land and salt water.

Terrestrial animal animals living on land

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land, as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water, or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Terrestrial invertebratess include ants, flies, crickets, grasshoppers and spiders.

This genus is found in New Zealand.

Species

Species within the genus Marinula include:

<i>Marinula filholi</i> species of mollusc

Marinula filholi is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae; found in New Zealand.

Marinula striata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae.

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Marinula King, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206085 on 2015-02-24

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