Buettnerella
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Buettnerella is a genus
of air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae
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Buettnerella is the nomen novum for Buettneria Simroth, 1888.
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
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...
gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, ....
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Buettnerella is the nomen novum for Buettneria Simroth, 1888.
Species
There are two species within the genus Buettnerella:- Buettnerella leuckharti Simroth
- Buettnerella garambaensis Van Goethem