Mastus

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Mastus
Mastus cretensis (Pfeiffer, 1846)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Enoidea
Family: Enidae
Genus: Mastus
Beck, 1837[1]

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

Species

Species within the genus Mastus include:

  • Mastus abundans

References

  1. ↑ Beck, H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. (1837): 1-100, (1838): 101-124. Hafniae.

Further reading

  • Parmakelis A., Spanos E., Papagiannakis G., Louis C. & Mylonas M. (2003). "Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and morphological diversity in the genus Mastus (Beck, 1837): a study in a recent (Holocene) island group (Koufonisi, south-east Crete)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78(3): 383-399. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00152.x

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