Carychium
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Carychium is a genus
of very small air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
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subgenus Carychium O. F. Müller, 1774
subgenus Saraphia Risso, 1826
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of very small air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata. This is the only family in the superfamily Ellobioidea, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)....
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Species
Subgenera and species within the genus Carychium include:subgenus Carychium O. F. Müller, 1774
- Carychium biondii Paulucci, 1882
- Carychium minimumCarychium minimumCarychium minimum is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in European countries and islands including:* Czech Republic* Netherlands...
O. F. Müller, 1774 - herald thorn, the type species - Carychium paganettii Zimmermann, 1925
subgenus Saraphia Risso, 1826
- Carychium hellenicum Bank & E. Gittenberger, 1985
- Carychium ibazoricum Bank & E. Gittenberger, 1985
- Carychium mariaeCarychium mariaeCarychium mariae is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.Carychium mariae was described by Italian malacologist Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona Paulucci in 1878.- Distribution :This species occurs in European...
Paulucci, 1878 - Carychium schlickumi Strauch, 1977
- Carychium tridentatumCarychium tridentatumCarychium tridentatum is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in European countries and islands including:* Bulgaria* Czech Republic...
(Risso, 1826) - dentate thorn
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- Carychium clappi Hubricht, 1959 - Appalachian thorn
- Carychium cymatoplax
- Carychium exiguumCarychium exiguumCarychium exiguum, common name the obese thorn snail, is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Carychiinae....
(Say) - obese thorn - Carychium exile I. Lea, 1842 - ice thorn
- Carychium hachijoensis Pilsbry, 1902 -
- Carychium mexicanum Pilsbry, 1891 - southern thorn
- Carychium nannodes G.H. Clapp, 1905 - file thorn
- Carychium noduliferum Reinhardt, 1877 -
- Carychium occidentale - western thorn
- Carychium pessimum Pilsbry, 1902 -
- Carychium riparium - floodplain thorn
- Carychium stygium - cave thorn
Further reading
- Pilsbry H. A. (October) 1894. The American species of Carychium. The Nautilus, 8(6): 61-63.