Drymaeus is a large genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Peltellinae of the family Bulimulidae.[3] [4]
Drymaeus | |
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Drymaeus multilineatus hanging on a tree branch. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Genus: | Drymaeus Albers, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
Helix hygrohylaea d'Orbigny, 1835 | |
Diversity[2] | |
more than 750 species names | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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Distribution of genus Drymaeus include South and Central America. For example in Mexico live about 65 species of Drymaeus.[2]
There are two subgenera: Drymaeus sensus stricto and subgenus Mesembrinus. They are accepted as alternate representations.
Species within the genus Drymaeus include:
These species were previously in Drymaeus and moved to Antidrymaeus:[10]