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Itaborahia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Bulimulidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Orthalicoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Itaborahia

Similar
  
Leiostracus, Bulimulus, Orthalicidae, Bulimulidae, Biomphalaria

Itaborahia is a fossil genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Bulimulidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene deposits of the ItaboraĆ­ Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Species

The only species currently in this genus is Itaborahia lamegoi Maury, 1935, although some other species were previously included within this genus.

References

Itaborahia Wikipedia