Xerolenta
Genus of gastropods
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Xerolenta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Geomitridae.[2][3]
| Xerolenta | |
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| Apical view of the shell of Xerolenta obvia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Subfamily: | Helicellinae |
| Tribe: | Helicopsini |
| Genus: | Xerolenta Monterosato, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix obvia Menke, 1828 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Species
Species in the genus Xerolenta include:[4]
- Xerolenta macedonica (Hesse, 1928)
- Xerolenta obvia (Menke, 1828)
- Xerolenta spiruloides (Wagner & Hesse, 1916)
- Xerolenta thasia (Reischütz, 1983)
- Synonyms
- Xerolenta candicans Pfeiffer, 1841: synonym of Helicella obvia (Menke, 1828)
- Xerolenta razlogi | (Pintér, 1969): synonym of Xerolenta obvia razlogi (L. Pintér, 1969)
- Taxon inquiriendum
- Xerolenta depulsa (L. Pintér, 1969)
