Euplecta
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| Euplecta | |
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| Euplecta indica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Ariophantidae |
| Genus: | Euplecta C. Semper, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Helix subopaca L. Pfeiffer, 1853 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Nanina (Thysanota) Albers, 1860 | |
Euplecta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ariophantidae.[1]
These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka.[2]
More than eighty species are recognized according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).[3]
