Caracolus

Caracolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Pleurodontidae
Genus:	Caracolus Montfort, 1810^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Caracolla Montfort, 1810 Discodoma Swainson, 1840 Serpentulus Adams, 1855 Wurtzorbis

Caracolus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurodontidae.

Species

Species within the genus Caracolus include:

Caracolus albilabris Lamarck^[2]
Caracolus caracolla Oken^[2]
Caracolus carocolla Linnaeus^[2]
Caracolus marginella (Gmelin, 1791)^[2]

References

^ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 138.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Schileyko A. A. (2006). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. Helicidae, Pleurodontidae, Polygyridae, Ammonitellidae, Oreohelicidae, Thysanophoridae". Ruthenica Suppl. 2: 1765-1906. pages 1826.