Xerotricha
Encyclopedia
Xerotricha is a genus
of small air-breathing land snail
s, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks 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 small 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, a 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 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 Xerotricha include:- Xerotricha adoptata (Mousson, 1872)
- Xerotricha apicinaXerotricha apicinaXerotricha apicina is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.-External links:* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=2549...
(Lamarck, 1822) - Xerotricha barcinensis (Bourguignat, 1868)
- Xerotricha bierzona (Gittenberger & Manga, 1977)
- Xerotricha conspurcataXerotricha conspurcataXerotricha conspurcata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.This snail is native to the Mediterranean region of Europe....
(Draparnaud, 1801) - type species - Xerotricha corderoi (Gittenberger & Manga, 1977)
- Xerotricha gasulli (Ortiz de Zárate y López, 1950)
- Xerotricha gonzalezi (Azpeitia Moros, 1925)
- Xerotricha huidobroi (Azpeitia Moros, 1925)
- Xerotricha jamuzensis (Gittenberger & Manga, 1977)
- Xerotricha madritensis (Rambur, 1868)
- Xerotricha mariae (Gasull, 1972)
- Xerotricha nodosostriata (Mousson, 1872)
- Xerotricha nubivaga (Mabille, 1882)
- Xerotricha renei (Fagot, 1882)
- Xerotricha silosensis (Ortiz de Zárate y López, 1950)
- Xerotricha vatonniana (Bourguignat, 1867)
- Xerotricha zaratei (Gittenberger & Manga, 1977)
- Xerotricha zujarensis (Ortiz de Zárate y López, 1950)