Daedalochila
| Daedalochila | |
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| Daedalochila auriculata from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Genus: | Daedalochila Beck, 1837 |
Daedalochila is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.
These are small snails, only about 10 mm to 15 mm in diameter (or approximately one-half inch), notable for their elaborately convoluted apertures, with only very narrow openings. Their range is limited to the southern United States and northern Mexico.
Species
[edit]This genus contains the following species and subspecies:
- Daedalochila adamnis (fossil)
- Daedalochila auriculata
- Daedalochila auriformis
- Daedalochila avara
- Daedalochila chisosensis
- Daedalochila delecta
- Daedalochila hausmani
- Daedalochila hippocrepis
- Daedalochila oppilata
- Daedalochila postelliana
- Daedalochila scintilla
- Daedalochila troostiana*
- Daedalochila uvulifera
References
[edit]- ^ 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 40.
- ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 591-607.
- ^ Burch, John B. (1962). How to know the Eastern Land Snails. Wm. C. Brown Co.: Dubuque IA, 214 pp.
- ^ https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=566974 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database