Stenotrema

Stenotrema
A live individual of Stenotrema hirsutum
Three views of a shell of Stenotrema florida, with a close-up view of the periostracal "hairs" that are typical of the genus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Stenotrema
Rafinesque, 1819[1]

Stenotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae. These are typically small to medium-sized snails, with a velvety or hairy shell surface, and a narrow aperture which is usually closely guarded by well-developed "teeth".

  1. ^ Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse 136 [n.n.]; Rafinesque C. S. (1819). Journ. de Physique 88: 425.