Satsuma (gastropod)
| Satsuma | |
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| 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:
- Satsuma japonica[2]
- Satsuma myomphala
- Satsuma omphaloides[2]
References
- ↑ Adams (1868). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)1: 463.
- 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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