Satsuma (gastropod)

Satsuma
A live individual of a Satsuma species
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Satsuma
Adams, 1868[1]

Satsuma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.

Species

Species within the genus Satsuma include:

References

  1. Adams (1868). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)1: 463.
  2. 1 2 Tatewaki R. & Kitada J. (1987). "Karyological studies of five species of land snails (Helicoidea: Mollusca)". Genetica 74(1): 73-80. doi:10.1007/BF00055097.

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