Superfamily Helicoidea Scientific name Xolotrema Rank Genus | ||
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Similar Patera, Euchemotrema, Polygyridae, Stenotrema, Neohelix | ||
Xolotrema caroliniense i lea 1834 blunt wedge snail
Xolotrema is a genus (or subgenus under Triodopsis) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.
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Shell description
Pilsbry (1940) characterized the shell of Xolotrema (which he considered to be a subgenus) thus:
"Triodopses, in which the inner margin of the basal lip has a long bladelike lamella, terminating at a notch where it joins the outher arc of the lip; the embryonic whorls are covered with close retractive radial striae (subobsolete in T. fosteri)."
Species
Species within the genus Xolotrema include:
References
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