Microphysula cookei
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Microphysula cookei, common name
the Vancouver snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Thysanophoridae
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in 1922.
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Common name
A common name of a taxon or organism is a name in general use within a community; it is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism...
the Vancouver snail, is a species 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...
, a 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 mollusk in the family Thysanophoridae
Thysanophoridae
Thysanophoridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea .These are common woodland snails of North America...
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Original description
The species Microphysula cookei was originally described as Zonitoides cookei by Henry Augustus PilsbryHenry Augustus Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century...
in 1922.
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows: