Naesiotus | |
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Naesiotus stenogyroides | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Subfamily: | Bulimulinae |
Genus: | Naesiotus J. C. Albers, 1850 [1] |
Type species | |
Bulimus nuxBroderip, 1832 | |
Synonyms | |
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Naesiotus is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae. [2] [3]
Species within the genus Naesiotus include:
Distribution of the genus Naesiotus include Ecuador, Colombia, [5] Dominica (1 species), Peru, [6] ...
People are sometimes consuming them raw, but consumption of raw snails is not recommended because snails can be vector of number of parasites.
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