Rhysotina | |
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Shell of Rhysotina welwitschi (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
Family: | Urocyclidae |
Genus: | Rhysotina Ancey, 1887 |
Type species | |
Helix welwitschiMorelet, 1866 | |
Synonyms | |
ThomeonaninaGermain, 1909 (objective synonym) |
Rhysotina is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Rhysotininae of the family Urocyclidae. [1]
Species within the genus Rhysotina include:
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