Pseudosubulina

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Pseudosubulina
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Pseudosubulina

Pseudosubulina is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.[1]

The genus name refers to the fact that the shell of these snails loosely resemble that of the genus Subulina.

References

  1. ^ Thompson, F. G. (2010). "Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae)". Revista de biologia tropical. 58 (1): 195–202. PMID 20411717., PDF.