Thyrophorella
Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thyrophorella is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[2]
| Thyrophorella thomensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Subfamily: | Thyrophorellinae Girard, 1895 |
| Genus: | Thyrophorella Greeff, 1882[1] |
| Species: | T. thomensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Thyrophorella thomensis Greeff, 1882 | |
Thyrophorella is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Thyrophorellinae, and is also itself monotypic. It is represented by the single species, Thyrophorella thomensis, which is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe.[3]
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