Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Orthalicoidea Subfamily Bulimulinae Rank Genus | Class Gastropoda Family Bulimulidae Phylum Mollusca | |
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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:
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
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