Merdigera is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.[2]
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| Left side view of a live Merdigera obscura. | |
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| Merdigera obscura shells | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Enidae |
| Genus: | Merdigera Held, 1838[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix obscura O. F. Müller, 1774
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Species
editSpecies in this genus include:
- Merdigera invisa Kijashko, 2006[3]
- Merdigera obscura (Müller, 1774) - the type species of the genus Merdigera
References
edit- ^ (in German) Held F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns". Isis 1837(12): 902-919.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Merdigera Held, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996277 on 2021-07-12
- ^ Kijashko P. V. (2006). "A new species of the genus Merdigera Held, 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from Northwest Caucasus". Ruthenica 16(1/2): 89-91.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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Media related to Merdigera at Wikimedia Commons- Held, F. (1837-1838). Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. Isis (Oken), 30 (4): 303-309 (1837); 30 (12): 901-919 (1838). Leipzig
- Merdigera at AnimalBase
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