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Beddomea

Beddomea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka. and three species of its kind have been discovered.

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Beddomea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Beddomea
G.Nevill, 1878
Synonyms
  • Nanina (Thysanota) Albers, 1860
  • Queridomus Iredale, 1937

Beddomea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.1 These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka.2 and three species of its kind have been discovered.

Species

  • Beddomea albizonatus (Reeve 1849)
  • Beddomea ceylanicus (Pfeiffer 1846)
  • Beddomea intermedius (Pfeiffer 1855)
References

References

  1. "Beddomea species". ncbi. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. "Introduction To Snails Of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Retrieved 25 February 2019.