Dimorphoptychia

Dimorphoptychia
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: †Dimorphoptychia
Sandberger, 1871

Dimorphoptychia is an extinct genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Helicinidae.

Dimorphoptychia is the type genus of the subfamily Dimorphoptychiinae, which is likewise fully extinct today.

Species

Species within the genus Dimorphoptychia include:

References

  1. ↑ Solem A. (1983). "Lost or kept internal whorls: ordinal differences in land snails". Journal of Molluscan Studies 49(supp12A) 172-178. abstract[link removed].
  2. ↑ Sandberger (1871). Land- u. Süssw.-Conch. Vorwelt, 149.
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