Laevaricella
Encyclopedia
Laevaricella is a genus
of tropical, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oleacinidae
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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 tropical, 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 Oleacinidae
Oleacinidae
Oleacinidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata .-Anatomy:...
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Species
Species within the genus Laevaricella include:- Laevaricella glabra (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Laevaricella guadeloupensis (Pfeiffer)
- Laevaricella interrupta (Shuttleworth, 1854)
- Laevaricella perlucensLaevaricella perlucensLaevaricella perlucens is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oleacinidae.- Distribution :Laevaricella perlucens is endemic to Dominica...
(Guppy, 1868) - Laevaricella semitarum (Pfeiffer, 1842) - type species
- Laevaricella playa H. B. Baker, 1940 - photo