Biology:Lindholmia

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Short description: Genus of snails

Lindholmia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Lindholmia
P.Hesse, 1918

Lindholmia is a genus of large terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. It has two known species distributed in northwestern Turkey and southern Georgia. The shell is globular, with narrow dark bands.[1]

Species

  • Lindholmia nordmanni (Mousson, 1854)
  • Lindholmia christophi Boettger, 1881

References

  1. Neubert, Eike; Bank, Ruud A. (2006). "Notes on the species of Caucasotachea C. Boettger 1909 and Lindholmia P. Hesse 1919, with annotations to the Helicidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 135 (1): 101–132. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/101-132. 

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