Pleuroxia

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Pleuroxia
Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (MNHN-IM-2000-1872).jpeg
Shell of Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Pleuroxia
Ancey 1887 [1]
Type species
Helix cyrtopleuraL. Pfeiffer, 1862
Synonyms
  • AngasellaA. Adams in Angas, 1864 (not used after 1899 as erroneously considered a homonym of AngasiellaCrosse, 1864)
  • AngasiettaIredale, 1939
  • GantomiaIredale, 1939

Pleuroxia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae. [2]

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Species

Species within the genus Pleuroxia include:

Synonyms

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References

  1. Ancey C. M. F. (1887). Conch. Exchange2: 38.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleuroxia Ancey, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818486 on 2022-01-31