Pyrgina

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Pyrgina
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Pyrgina

Greeff, 1882

Pyrgina is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. [1]

Species

Species within the genus Pyrgina include:

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