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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.

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Distribution

The distribution of the genus Varicoturris includes Mexico and Guatemala.

Species

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)

    • References

    Varicoturris Wikipedia
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