Satsuma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Camaenidae |
Subfamily: | Bradybaeninae |
Genus: | Satsuma Adams, 1868 [1] |
Type species | |
Helix japonicaL. Pfeiffer, 1847 | |
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Satsuma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Aegistini of the subfamily Bradybaeninae in the family Camaenidae. [2]
Satsuma species can primarily be found in Japan, as well as China. It also exists in Vietnam, Guam, and the Phillipines, as well as Indonesia and Hong Kong. [3]
The following species are recognised in the genus Satsuma: [4]