Asperitas
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Asperitas is a genus
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 mollusks in the family Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dyakioidea ....

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Species

The genus Asperitas include 14 species:

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  • Asperitas badjavensis Rensch, 1930 - photo
  • Asperitas bimaensis (Schepman, 1892)
    • Asperitas bimaensis cochlostyloides (Schepman, 1892)
    • Asperitas bimaensis halata
    • Asperitas bimaensis soembaensis (Schepman, 1892)
    • Asperitas bimaensis viridis (Schepman, 1892)
  • Asperitas colorata
    • Asperitas colorata komodoensis Haltenorth & Jaeckel, 1940 - Komodo Asperitas Snail
  • Asperitas everetti E. A. Smith, 1897
  • Asperitas inquinata (von dem Busch, 1842)
    • Asperitas inquinata moussoni (Pfeiffer, 1849)
    • Asperitas inquinata penidae (von dem Busch, 1842)
  • Asperitas nemorensis Müller, 1774
  • Asperitas polymorpha E. A. Smith, 1884
  • Asperitas rareguttata Mousson, 1849
    • Asperitas rareguttata crebiguttata / Asperitas crebiguttata Von Martens, 1867
  • Asperitas rugosissima (Moellendorff, 1903) - the type species
  • Asperitas sparsa Mousson, 1854
    • Asperitas sparsa baliensis Mousson, 1857
  • Asperitas stuartiae (Sowerby in Pfeiffer, 1845)
    • Asperitas stuartiae hadiprajitnoi Dharma, 1999
    • Asperitas stuartiae yani Dharma, 1999
  • Asperitas trochus Müller, 1774 - Trochoid Asperitas Snail
    • Asperitas trochus melanoraphe
    • Asperitas trochus parvinsularis
    • Asperitas trochus penidae Rensch, 1839
    • Asperitas trochus polymorpha
    • Asperitas trochus pseudonemorensis
    • Asperitas trochus rareguttata
    • Asperitas trochus trochus
  • Asperitas waandersiana (Wousson, 1857) / Asperitas trochus waandersiana Mousson, 1857 - photo
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