Lemniscia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.[1]
| Lemniscia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Subfamily: | Geomitrinae |
| Genus: | Lemniscia R.T. Lowe, 1855 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix michaudi Deshayes, 1832 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helix (Lemniscia) R. T. Lowe, 1855 | |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Lemniscia include:
- Lemniscia galeata (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
- Lemniscia michaudi (Deshayes, 1832)
- Synonyms
- Lemniscia calva (R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of Caseolus (Caseolus) calvus (R. T. Lowe, 1831) represented as Caseolus calvus (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Lemniscia R. T. Lowe, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996333 on 2022-07-21 Archived 2020-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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- Nomenclator Zoologicus info
- Lowe, R. T. (1855 ("1854")). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208