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Quantula

Quantula is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.

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Quantula
Shell of Quantula franzhuberi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Dyakiidae
Genus: Quantula
H. B. Baker, 1941
Species

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Synonyms1

Dyakia (Quantula) H. B. Baker, 1941

Quantula is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists:1

  • Quantula franzhuberi Thach, 2020
  • Quantula godwinausteni (Laidlaw, 1931)
  • Quantula naggsi Thach & F. Huber, 2020
  • Quantula simonei Thach & F. Huber, 2018
  • Quantula striata (Gray, 1834)
  • Quantula tenera (Möllendorff, 1901)
  • Quantula weinkauffiana (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
References

References

  1. "Quantula". WoRMS. MolluscaBase. 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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