Microphysula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Thysanophoridae.
Microphysula | |
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Three views of a shell of Microphysula cookei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Thysanophoridae |
Genus: | Microphysula Cockerell & Pilsbry, 1926[1] |
Species
editSpecies in the genus Microphysula include:
- Microphysula cookei (Pilsbry, 1922) - Vancouver snail
- Microphysula ingersolli (Bland, 1875) - spruce snail - type species
References
edit- ^ Cockerell, T.D.A., & H.A. Pilsbry. 1926. The land mollusks of the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 78: 117.