Nicida

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Nicida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Diplommatinidae
Subfamily:
Diplommatininae
Genus:
Nicida

W.T. Blanford, 1868
Synonyms
  • Diplommatina (Nicida)W. T. Blanford, 1869

Nicida is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diplommatinidae. [1] These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.

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 invertebrates include ants, flies, crickets, grasshoppers and spiders.

Diplommatinidae family of molluscs

Diplommatinidae is a family of small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea. The Cochlostomatinae Kobelt, 1902, were previously considered a subfamily of the Diplommatinidae, but are now known to be a separate family.

Three species are recognized. [2]

Species

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References

  1. ↑ "Taxon details - Nicida W.T. Blanford, 1868". WoRMS. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. ↑ Bambaradeniya, Channa N. B. (2006). The Fauna of Sri Lanka: Status of Taxonomy, Research, and Conservation. ISBN   9789558177518 . Retrieved 25 February 2019.


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