Iravadia
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| Iravadia | |
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| Shell of Iravadia quadrasi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Iravadiidae |
| Genus: | Iravadia Blanford, 1867[1] |
| Type species | |
| Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867 | |
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Iravadia is a genus of very small, somewhat amphibious land snails that have a gill and an operculum, semi-terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusk in the family Iravadiidae.[2]
These tiny snails live in damp habitat (under rotting vegetation) that is very close to the edge of the sea; they can tolerate being washed with saltwater during especially high tides. These snails are listed as freshwater snails by Vaught (1989).[3]
William Thomas Blanford established the genus Iravadia within the family Rissoidae in 1867.
