Varicoturris

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Spiraxidae Rank Genus		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Testacelloidea Subfamily Euglandininae

Varicoturris is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Varicoturris includes Mexico and Guatemala.

There are five species within two subgenera in the genus Varicoturris:

Subgenus Vericoturris Pilsbry, 1907

Varicoturris dubia (Pfeiffer, 1856)

Varicoturris flammulata (H. B. Baker, 1941)

Varicoturris huehuetenangoensis (Thompson, 1995)

Varicoturris pycnoptyx (Thompson, 1995)

Subgenus Streptostylella Pilsbry, 1908

Varicoturris botteriana (Crosse & Fischer, 1869)

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