Poole, Karen E.
Mandarina
Sign in to saveMandarina is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae, subfamily Bradybaeninae.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyCamaenidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Camaenidae
- Collections
- USNM, UMMZ, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Japan
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Mandarina is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae, subfamily Bradybaeninae.
Mandarina have been traditionally placed within Camaenidae. Phylogenic study by Chiba (1999) have found, that Mandarina is closely related to Euhadra (family Bradybaenidae) and that Mandarina have probably evolved from Euhadra.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mandarina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.