Trochoidea gharlapsi
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Trochoidea gharlapsi is a species of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae
. It is endemic to Malta.
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...
, 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 mollusk 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:...
. It is endemic to Malta.
Source
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Trochoidea gharlapsi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.