Xolotrema

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Xolotrema
Xolotrema notata from W. G. Binney, 1878
Xolotrema notata from W. G. Binney, 1878 [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Suborder: Eupulmonata
Infraorder: Stylommatophora
Parvorder: Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Xolotrema
Rafinesque, 1819 [2]

Xolotrema is a genus (or subgenus under Triodopsis) of terrestrial snails in the family Polygyridae. Pilsbry (1940)[3] characterizes Xolotrema (which he considered to be a subgenus): "Triodopses in which the inner margin of the basal lip has a long bladelike lamella, terminating at a notch where it joins the outher arc of the lip; the embryonic whorls are covered with close retractive radial striae (subobsolete in T. fosteri)."

The genus Xolotrema contains the following species:

  • Xolotrema notata
  • Xolotrema obstricta
  • Xolotrema carolinensis
  • Xolotrema fosteri

[edit] References

  1. ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 14.
  2. ^ Rafinesque, C. S. (1819). Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle 88:425.
  3. ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 823.
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