Haplotrema

Haplotrema
Three views of a shell of Haplotrema concavum from W. G. Binney, 1878[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Haplotrematidae
Genus: Haplotrema
Ancey, 1881[2]

Haplotrema is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.

This genus is the major genus in the terrestrial snail family Haplotrematidae.

These carnivorous land snails are widely distributed in North America.[3]

Species

The genus Haplotrema contains the following species:[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 21.
  2. ^ Ancey, César-Marie-Felix. (1881). Le Naturaliste 1: 453.
  3. ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 2(1): 202-230.
  4. ^ [1] Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database
  5. ^ [2] Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online).

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