Acliceratia

Acliceratia
Acliceratia beddomei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Iravadiidae
Genus: Acliceratia
Ponder, 1984[1]

Acliceratia is a genus of very small, somewhat amphibious land snails that have a gill and an operculum, semi-terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusk in the family Iravadiidae.[2]

These tiny snails live in damp habitat (under rotting vegetation) that is very close to the edge of the sea; they can tolerate being washed with saltwater during especially high tides. These snails are sometimes listed as land snails and at other times they are listed as marine snails.

Species

Species within the genus Acliceratia include:

References

  1. ↑ Ponder W. (1984). Malacologia 25(1): 58.
  2. ↑ Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010). Acliceratia Ponder, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224676 on 2011-04-02
  3. ↑ Gofas, S. (2010). Acliceratia beddomei (Dautzenberg, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224679 on 2011-04-02
  4. ↑ Gofas, S. (2010). Acliceratia carinata (Smith, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535771 on 2011-04-02


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