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Enteroplax

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

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Enteroplax
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Strobilopsidae
Genus: Enteroplax
Gude, 18991

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

Species

The genus Enteroplax includes the following species:

  • Enteroplax boholensis (Gude) - from Bohol, Philippines2
  • Enteroplax kanjiokuboi Minato & Tada, 1992 - from Taiwan3
  • Enteroplax quadrasi (Möllendorff) - type species, from Luzon, Philippines4
  • Enteroplax taiwanica Minato & Tada, 1992 - from Taiwan3
  • Enteroplax trochospira (Möllendorff) - from Cebu, Philippines2
  • Enteroplax yaeyamensis Habe & Chinen, 1974 - from Yaeyama Islands, Japan2
References

References

  1. Gude G. P. L. K. (1899). Science Gossip, (N.S.) 6: 149.
  2. (in Japanese and English) Habe T. & Chinen M. (1974). "八重山群島石垣・西表両島の陸産貝類相とその生物地理学的意義 Land Molluscan Fauna of Ishigaki and Iriomote Islands, with Notes on Biogeography of Ryukyu Archipelago". Memoirs of the National Science Museum 7: 121. PDF CiNii.
  3. (in Japanese) Minato H. & Tada A. (1992). "台湾で採集されたクチミゾガイ科の 2 新種 Two New Species of the Genus Enteroplax from Taiwan (Pulmonata : Strobilopsidae)". The Japanese journal of malacology. Venus 51(3): 159-162. CiNii.
  4. Pilsbry H. A. (1927). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 28. Geographic Distribution of Pupillidae; Strobilopsidae, Valloniidae and Pleurodiscidae. Conchological department Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia. 50.
Further reading

Further reading

  • (in Japanese) Minato H. (1982). 日本のクチミゾガイ類. "Eostrobilops and Enteroplax from Japan (Strobilopsidae)". 日本貝類学会研究連絡誌 The Chiribotan. CiNii.