Caracolus
Genus of gastropods
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Caracolus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Solaropsidae.[3]
| Caracolus | |
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| Caracolus caracolla | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Solaropsidae |
| Genus: | Caracolus Montfort, 1810[1] |
| Type species | |
| Caracolus oculatus Montfort, 1810 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
Species within the genus Caracolus include:
- Caracolus albilabris Lamarck, 1816[2]
- † Caracolus aquilonaris Bishop, 1979
- Caracolus bicolor Lamarck, 1816
- Caracolus bizonalis (Deshayes, 1850)
- Caracolus caracolla Oken[2][4]
- Caracolus carinatus (Röding, 1798)
- Caracolus carocolla (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
- Caracolus cimarron Espinosa, Fernández-Velázquez & Ortea, 2016
- Caracolus marginella (Gmelin, 1791)[2]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Caracolus oculatus Montfort, 1810: synonym of Caracolus carocolla (Linnaeus, 1758)
