Pleuroxia

Pleuroxia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.

Pleuroxia
Shell of Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Pleuroxia
Ancey 1887
Type species
Helix cyrtopleura L. Pfeiffer, 1862
Synonyms
  • Angasella A. Adams in Angas, 1864 (not used after 1899 as erroneously considered a homonym of Angasiella Crosse, 1864)
  • Angasietta Iredale, 1939
  • Gantomia Iredale, 1939
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