Tanychlamys is a large genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae.[1]

Tanychlamys
A live individual and an empty shell of Tanychlamys indica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Subfamily: Macrochlamydinae
Genus: Tanychlamys
Benson, 1834
Type species
Helix vitrinoides Deshayes, 1831
Synonyms[1]
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  • Ariophanta (Macrochlamys) Gray, 1847
  • Helicarion (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836
  • Macrochlamys W. H. Benson, 1836
  • Macrochlamys (Euaustenia) Cockerell, 1891
  • Macrochlamys (Macrochlamys) Gray, 1847
  • Macrochlamys (Rhadella) Godwin-Austen, 1914
  • Nanina (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836
  • Nanina (Orobia) E. von Martens, 1860
  • Orobia E. von Martens, 1860
  • Stenopus (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836

Species

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Species within the genus Tanychlamys include:

 
Macrochlamys amboinensis

References

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  1. ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tanychlamys W. H. Benson, 1834". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  2. ^ a b c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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