Trissexodon

Trissexodon is a monotypic genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trissexodontidae.

Trissexodon
Apertural view of a shell of Trissexodon constrictus, scale is in mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Trissexodontidae
Genus:
Trissexodon

Trissexodon is the type genus of the family Trissexodontidae, its only species being Trissexodon constrictus (Boubée, 1836).[2]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Trissexodon includes the western Pyrenees.[2]

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1895). Manual of Conchology (2)9: 287, 288.
  2. "Genus summary for Trissexodon". AnimalBase, last modified 26 September 2008, accessed 12 January 2011.


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