Trilobopsis

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Trilobopsis is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.

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Trilobopsis
Three views of a shell of Trilobopsis loricata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Tribe: Allogonini
Genus: Trilobopsis
Pilsbry, 1939
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Distribution

The distribution of this species is restricted to Oregon and California, USA.

Description

The shells of species in this genus are somewhat globular and about 5 to 8 mm in diameter (1/4 to 3/16 inch).

Snails in this genus are distinguished from related snails on the basis of their reproductive anatomy.[1]

Species

Species in the genus Trilobopsis include:[1][2]

  • Trilobopsis loricata (Gould, 1846)
    • Trilobopsis loricata lowei (Pilsbry, 1925)
    • Trilobopsis loricata mariposa Pilsbry, 1940
    • Trilobopsis loricata nortensis (Berry, 1933)
    • Trilobopsis loricata perforata Pilsbry, 1940
    • Trilobopsis loricata sonomaensis (Hemphill, 1911)
  • Trilobopsis penitens (Hanna & Rixford, 1923)
  • Trilobopsis roperi (Pilsbry, 1889)
  • Trilobopsis tehamana (Pilsbry, 1928)
  • Trilobopsis trachypepla (Berry, 1933)

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