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Xeroleuca

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Xeroleuca
Shell of Xeroleuca mograbina (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Geomitridae
Subfamily: Helicellinae
Genus: Xeroleuca
Kobelt, 1877
Type species
Helix turcica Holten, 1802
Synonyms
  • Helix (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877
  • Xerophila (Xeroleuca) Kobelt, 1877 (superseded generic combination)

Xeroleuca is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the typical snails.[1]

It contains the following species:

Taxa inquirenda
  • Xeroleuca babelis Pallary, 1920 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca brulardi Pallary, 1913 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca chabertiana Pallary, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
  • Xeroleuca rebiana Pallary, 1913

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