Metodontia | |
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Metodontia huaiensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Bradybaenidae |
Genus: | Metodontia Möllendorff, 1886 |
Metodontia is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae. This genus is considered to be the most primitive of the bradybaenid snails. [1] [2]
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.
Species within the genus Metodontia include:
These are terrestrial snails.
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Mandarina is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.
Paraegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.
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Geostilbia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ferussaciidae.
Pseudiberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.
Pseudiberus zenonis is a species of land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bradybaenidae.
Gudeodiscus phlyarius is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.
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