Papillifera

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Papillifera
Shells of Papillifera papillaris. Scale bar is in mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Clausilioidei
Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Papillifera
Hartmann, 1842[1]
Synonyms
  • Clausilia (Papillifera) W. Hartmann, 1842 (superseded combination)
  • Papillina Moquin-Tandon, 1856

Papillifera is a genus of air-breathing land snails with a clausilium, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Alopiinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.[2]

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