Cryptomastix
Sign in to saveCryptomastix is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyPolygyridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- Family
- Polygyridae
- Collections
- CAS, FMNH, USNM, UF, DMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polygyridae
- Image
- CryptomastixMullaniClappi.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cryptomastix
- taxon name
- Cryptomastix
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Cryptomastix
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cryptomastix is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
These snails cannot be differentiated from related polygyrids solely on the basis of their shell characters. Instead, the details of the male anatomy must be examined.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cryptomastix” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.