Thapsia troglodytes
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Thapsia troglodytes | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | T. troglodytes
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Thapsia troglodytes | |
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Helix troglodytes Morelet, 1848 |
Thapsia troglodytes is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicarionidae.
Thapsia troglodytes is the type species of the genus Thaspia.[2]
References
- ^ Morelet A. (1848). "Testacea quaedam Africae occidentalis terrestria et fluviatilia". Revue Zoologique 1848: 351-355.
- ^ Winter A.J. de (2008). "Redefinition of Thapsia Albers, 1860, and description of three more helicarionoid genera from western Africa (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 82.