Eumecostylus
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| Eumecostylus | |
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| Shell of Eumecostylus almiranta (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Genus: | Eumecostylus E. von Martens, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus cleryi Petit de la Saussaye, 1850 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Eumecostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]
