Xerolenta
Encyclopedia
Xerolenta is a genus
of air-breathing, land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family
Hygromiidae
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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 air-breathing, land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
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 molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.-Anatomy:...
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Species
Species in the genus Xerolenta include:- Xerolenta macedonica (Hesse, 1928)
- Xerolenta obviaXerolenta obviaXerolenta obvia is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.-Distribution :This land snail occurs in European countries including:* Bulgaria* Czech Republic...
(Menke, 1828) - Xerolenta razlogi (Pintér, 1969)
- Xerolenta spiruloides (Wagner & Hesse, 1916)
- Xerolenta thasia (Reischütz, 1983)