Ptychotrema | |
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Shell of Ptychotrema assiniense (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
Family: | Streptaxidae |
Genus: | Ptychotrema L. Pfeiffer, 1853 |
Type species | |
Bulimus moerchi L. Pfeiffer, 1853 |
Ptychotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae. [1]
The distribution of the genus Ptychotrema is Afrotropical, and includes: [2]
Species within the genus Ptychotrema include:
? subgenus Ennea
subgenus Haplonepion Pilsbry, 1919 [4]
? subgenus Parennea
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