Inflectarius
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Inflectarius is a genus
of air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of air-breathing land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae
Polygyridae
Polygyridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.The Polygyridae make up a significant proportion of the land snail fauna of eastern North America, and are also found in western North America, northern Central America, and...
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Species
Species in the genus Inflectarius include:- Inflectarius approximans (G. H. Clapp, 1905) - tight-gapped shagreen
- Inflectarius downieanus (Bland, 1861) - dwarf globelet
- Inflectarius edentatus (Sampson, 1889) - smooth-lip shagreen
- Inflectarius ferrissi (Pilsbry, 1897) - Smoky Mountain covert
- Inflectarius inflectus (Say, 1821) - shagreen
- Inflectarius kalmianus (Hubricht, 1965) - brown globelet
- Inflectarius magazinensis (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1907) - Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snailMagazine Mountain middle-toothed snailThe Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail also known as the Magazine Mountain shagreen, scientific name Inflectarius magazinensis, is a species of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.- Distribution :This species is endemic to...
- Inflectarius rugeli (Shuttleworth, 1852) - deep-tooth shagreen
- Inflectarius smithi (G. H. Clapp, 1905) - Alabama shagreen
- Inflectarius subpalliatus (Pilsbry, 1893) - velvet covert
- Inflectarius verus (Hubricht, 1954)