Holospira

For the similarly named bacteria, see holosporaceae.

Holospira
Shell of Holospira elizabethae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Urocoptidae
Genus: Holospira
von Martens, 1860[1]
Species

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

Drawing of the cross section of the shell of Holospira elizabethae showing that the internal columella is hollow, which is typical feature of the genus.

Holospira is the type genus of the subfamily 'Holospirinae Pilsbry, 1946'.

  1. ^ von Martens E. (1860). In: Albers, Helic., ed. 2: 39.