Petasina | |
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A live individual of Petasina unidentata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Hygromiidae |
Subfamily: | Trochulininae |
Tribe: | Trochulini |
Genus: | Petasina Beck, 1847 [1] |
Petasina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae (the hairy snails and their allies).
This genus contains the following species: [2]
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