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Cryptomastix

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Cryptomastix
Cryptomastix mullani clappi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Subfamily: Triodopsinae
Tribe: Allogonini
Genus: Cryptomastix
Pilsbry, 1939

Cryptomastix is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.

These snails cannot be differentiated from related polygyrids solely on the basis of their shell characters. Instead, the details of the male anatomy must be examined.

Distribution[edit]

This genus of snails is restricted to the northwestern United States, and to adjacent areas of British Columbia, Canada.[1]

Species[edit]

This genus includes the following species:[1][2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 852-875.
  2. ^ [1] Cryptomastix at ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System); accessed 1 Feb. 2008.
  3. ^ [2] Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online).