Polymita
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Polymita, is a genus
of large, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helminthoglyptidae
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The shell of this species is large, brightly colored, and has numerous color varieties.
These snails are endemic to Cuba.
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 large, 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 Helminthoglyptidae
Helminthoglyptidae
The Helminthoglyptidae are a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This is a large and diverse group of new world snails, ranging in distribution from Alaska through North America to the West Indies, Central America, and as far...
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The shell of this species is large, brightly colored, and has numerous color varieties.
These snails are endemic to Cuba.
Species
Species within the genus Polymita include:- Polymita brocheri (Gutiérrez in Pfeiffer, 1864)
- Polymita muscarum (Lea, 1834)
- Polymita pictaPolymita pictaPolymita picta, common name the "Cuban land snail" or the "painted snail", is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae....
(Born, 1780) - type species - Polymita sulphurosa (Morelet, 1849)
- Polymita venusta (Gmelin, 1786)
- Polymita versicolor (Born, 1870)