Pyrenaearia

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Pyrenaearia
Pyrenaearia cantabrica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Hygromiidae
Genus: Pyrenaearia
Hesse, 1921[1]
Synonyms
  • Cantabricana Fagot, 1891 · unaccepted
  • Carascalensiana Fagot, 1885

Pyrenaearia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Leptaxinae of the family Hygromiidae, the harry snails and their allies.[2]

These snails live in limestone areas in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern Europe.

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