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Gomphroa

Gomphroa is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Azecidae.

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Gomphroa
Shell of Gomphroa remyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Azecidae
Genus: Gomphroa
Bourguignat, 18581
Type species
Zua boissii Dupuy, 1851
Synonyms2

Zua (Gomphroa) Westerlund, 1903 (original rank)

Gomphroa is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Azecidae.2

Species

Species in the genus Gomphroa include:

  • Gomphroa bisacchii (Giusti, 1970)
  • Gomphroa boissii (Dupuy, 1851)
  • Gomphroa cylindracea (Calcara, 1840)
  • Gomphroa dohrni (Paulucci, 1882)
  • Gomphroa emiliana (Bourguignat, 1859)
  • Gomphroa etrusca (Paulucci, 1886)
  • Gomphroa incerta (Bourguignat, 1859)
  • Gomphroa remyi (O. Boettger, 1949)
  • Gomphroa zirjensis (Štamol, Manganelli, Barbato & Giusti, 2018)
References

References

  1. Bourguignat J. R. (1858). Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)10: 530.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gomphroa Westerlund, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998739 on 2021-03-13
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