Microxeromagna is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Microxeromagna Ortiz de Zarate Lopez, 1950 |
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Cernuella (Microxeromagna) Ortiz de Zárate López, 1950 · | |
The genus is distributed along the Mediterranean basin, from the Italian Peninsula to Middle east.
Species
editThe genus Microxeromagna is monospecific:
- Microxeromagna lowei (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
- Synonyms
- Microxeromagna armillata (R. T. Lowe, 1852): synonym of Microxeromagna lowei (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) (junior synonym)
References
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- ^ Chueca, Luis J.; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.; Madeira, María José; Pfenninger, Markus (January 2018). "Molecular phylogeny of Candidula (Geomitridae) land snails inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers reveals the polyphyly of the genus". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118: 357–368. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.022. PMID 29107619.