Pycnoptychia
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Pycnoptychia is a genus
of a land snail
s, terrestrial
gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae
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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 a land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
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...
gastropod mollusks in the family Urocoptidae
Urocoptidae
Urocoptidae is a family of land snails, gastropods in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.- 2005 taxonomy :The Urocoptidae family has been classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata .The...
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Species
Species in the genus Pycnoptychia include:- Pycnoptychia amicorum Torre & Bartsch, 2008
- Pycnoptychia humboldtiana (Pfeiffer, 1840)
- Pycnoptychia oviedoiana (d’Orbigny, 1842)
- Pycnoptychia peraffinis (Pilsbry, 1903)
- Pycnoptychia scaeva (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1863)
- Pycnoptychia shuttleworthiana (Poey, 1856)
- Pycnoptychia strangulata (Poey, 1856)
- Pycnoptychia striatella (Wright in Pfeiffer, 1864)
- Pycnoptychia torrei (Arango, 1876)
- Pycnoptychia trina Torre & Bartsch, 2008