Mediterranea (gastropod)

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Mediterranea
Shell of Mediterranea hydatina hydatina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Oxychilinae
Genus: Mediterranea
Clessin, 1880
Synonyms
  • Diaphanella P. Hesse, 1916
  • Geodiaphana Thiele, 1917
  • Hydatina Westerlund, 1886
  • Oxychilus (Riedelius) Hudec, 1961
  • Riedeliconcha Schileyko, 2003
  • Riedelius Hudec, 1961

Mediterranea is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.[1]

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