Parvedentulina

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Parvedentulina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Genus: Parvedentulina
Emberton & Pearce, 2000
Type species
Parvedentulina ovatostoma Emberton & Pearce, 2000
Synonyms

Anachis (Parvanachis) Radwin, 1968 (original rank)

Parvedentulina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Orthogibbinae of the family Streptaxidae.[1][2]

94 species of Parvedentulina were known in 2002[1] although the majority of these species were described in 2002.[1] An additional 6 new species of Parvedentulina were described in 2009,[3] and a further 5 new species of Parvedentulina were described in 2010.[4]

The genus Parvedentulina is endemic to Madagascar.[1]

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