Spirorbula
Genus of gastropods
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Spirorbula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Geomitrinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.[2]
| Spirorbula | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Subfamily: | Geomitrinae |
| Genus: | Spirorbula Lowe, 1852[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix latens C. T. Lowe, 1852 | |
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Distribution
The distribution of the genus Spirorbula includes the area from Madeira to Porto Santo in the country of Portugal.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Spirobula include:
- Spirorbula depauperata (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Spirorbula latens (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- † Spirorbula latina (Paiva, 1866)
- Spirorbula obtecta (R. T. Lowe, 1852) - type species[3]
- Spirorbula squalida (R.T. Lowe, 1852)
