Hyperaulax

Hyperaulax
Temporal range: Miocene-recent
Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Hyperaulax ridleyi.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Odontostomidae
Genus: Hyperaulax
Pilsbry, 1897[1]

Hyperaulax is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Odontostomidae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Hyperaulax include:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Pilsbry H. A. (23 February 1897) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10.
  2. Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2012) "Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 182: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.182.2720.

Further reading

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