| Xerogyra | |
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| Apertural view of the shell of Xerogyra spadae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Xerogyra Monterosato, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| Helix spadae Calcara, 1845
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Xerogyra[1] is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.[2]
The genus is distributed in the Italian Peninsula. Xerogyra species were within the genus Candidula until a molecular phylogeny revealed the polyphyly of Candidula and, the genus Xerogyra Monterosato, 1892 was recovered.[2]
- ^ Monterosato, T. A. di (1892). "Molluschi terrestri delle isole adiacenti alla Sicilia". Atti della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti di Palermo. 3 (2): 1–33.
- ^ a b Chueca, Luis J.; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.; Madeira, María José; Pfenninger, Markus (January 2018). "Molecular phylogeny of Candidula (Geomitridae) land snails inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers reveals the polyphyly of the genus". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118: 357–368. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.022. PMID 29107619.