Ryssota

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Ryssota
Five views of a shell of muffin snail Ryssota ovum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Chronidae
Genus: Ryssota
Albers, 1850[1]
Type species
Helix ovum
Valenciennes, 1827
Synonyms[2]
  • Nanina (Ryssota) Albers, 1850 (original rank)
  • Rhysota Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation of the original name)
  • Rhysota (Rhysota) Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation to original name)
  • Rhyssota auct. (invalid: unjustified emendation of the original name)

Ryssota is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Chronidae.[2]

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