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Candidula
Sign in to saveCandidula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, . the hairy snails and their allies.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyGeomitridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 196
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Geomitridae
- Collections
- CAS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NMV, UMMZ, CMN, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Greece, Spain, Algeria, Italy, Morocco, Egypt, Australia, France
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Geomitridae
- Image
- Candidula unifasciata A MRKVICKA.JPG
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- topic's main category
- Category:Candidula
- taxon name
- Candidula
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Candidula
- taxon common name
- Grasslakken
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Encyclopedic overview
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Candidula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, . the hairy snails and their allies.
The genus is characterized by the presence of a big dart sac, a sac containing an arrow-like structure found on a land snail's reproductive organs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Candidula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.