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Euglandina
Sign in to saveEuglandina is a genus of predatory medium- to large-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.
Species
Rosy Wolfsnail
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilySpiraxidae
Observations6,704
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,459
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Spiraxidae
- Collections
- SEMAHN, PRI, UF, CAS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Honduras, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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Euglandina is a genus of predatory medium- to large-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.
These snails were previously placed in the family Oleacinidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Euglandina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.