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Naesiotus

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Kingdom
  
Superfamily
  
Subfamily
  
Bulimulinae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Family
  
Phylum
  
Naesiotus

Similar
  
Bulimulus, Drymaeus, Bulimulidae, Bostryx, Orthalicidae

Naesiotus is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.

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Species

Species within the genus Naesiotus include:

  • Naesiotus quitensis (Pfeiffer, 1848) - [1]
  • Naesiotus luciae (Pilsbry, 1897) [2]
  • Naesiotus stenogyroides (Guppy, 1868) - endemic to Dominica
  • Naesiotus subcostatus (Haas, 1948) [3]
  • Distribution

    Distribution of the genus Naesiotus include Ecuador, Colombia, Dominica (1 species), Peru, ...

    Human use

    People are sometimes consuming them raw, but consumption of raw snails is not recommended because snails can be vector of number of parasites.

    References

    Naesiotus Wikipedia


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