Omalonyx

Omalonyx
A live individual of Omalonyx convexus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

clade Elasmognatha
Superfamily:
Succineoidea
Family:
Succineidae
Genus:
Omalonyx

Omalonyx is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. These snails are amphibious, living very close to water and moving around both on emergent plants and also on submerged aquatic plants.[2]

  1. ^ d'Orbigny A. (1837). Amér. Mérid. (Moll.), page 229.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Arruda 2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).