Stenotrema

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Stenotrema
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A live individual of Stenotrema hirsutum
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Three views of a shell of Stenotrema florida , with a close-up view of the periostracal "hairs" that are typical of the genus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Stenotrema
Rafinesque, 1819 [1]

Stenotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae. Members of this genus are known as slitmouths. These are typically small to medium-sized snails, with a velvety or hairy shell surface, and a narrow aperture which is usually closely guarded by well-developed "teeth".

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Distribution

The genus occurs throughout most of North America, from Alaska, though Canada and the United States, into Mexico. [2]

Species

Genus Stenotrema contains the following species and subspecies: [2] [3]

See Euchemotrema for other closely related taxa, many of which are sometimes placed in Stenotrema.

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References

  1. Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse136 [n.n.]; Rafinesque C. S. (1819). Journ. de Physique88: 425.
  2. 1 2 Pilsbry, Henry A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 639-688.
  3. Stenotrema at ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System); accessed 11 Jan. 2008.
  4. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Stenotrema hubrichti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T20767A9230327. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T20767A9230327.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.