Merdigera

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Merdigera
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Left side view of a live Merdigera obscura .
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Merdigera obscura shells
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Enidae
Genus: Merdigera
Held, 1838 [1]
Type species
Helix obscura
O. F. Müller, 1774

Merdigera is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae. [2]

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Species

Species in this genus include:

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References

  1. (in German) Held F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns". Isis1837(12): 902-919.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Merdigera Held, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996277 on 2021-07-12
  3. Kijashko P. V. (2006). "A new species of the genus Merdigera Held, 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from Northwest Caucasus". Ruthenica16(1/2): 89-91.