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Fumonelix

Fumonelix is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.

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Fumonelix
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Fumonelix
Emberton, 1991

Fumonelix is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.

Species

Species in the genus Fumonelix include:1

  • Fumonelix archeri – Ocoee covert, Archer's toothed land snail
  • Fumonelix cherohalaensis2
  • Fumonelix christyi – glossy covert
  • Fumonelix jonesiana – big-tooth covert, Jones' middle-toothed land snail
  • Fumonelix langdoni2
  • Fumonelix orestes – engraved covert
  • Fumonelix roanensis2
  • Fumonelix wetherbyi – clifty covert
  • Fumonelix wheatleyi – cinnamon covert
References

References

  1. Fumonelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  2. Dourson, D. C. (2012). Four new land snail species from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science 128(1), 1-10.