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Temesa (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Clausiliidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Clausilioidea

Rank
  
Genus

Temesa is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The fossil record of this genus ranges tentatively from the Brazilian Paleocene of the ItaboraĆ­ Basin, in Rio de Janeiro State, where the species T. magalhaesi is found.

Species

The genus includes the following species:

  • T. magalhaesi (Trindade, 1953) - fossil from Brazil
  • References

    Temesa (gastropod) Wikipedia