Tortulosa | |
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Shell of Tortulosa tortuosa (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
Family: | Pupinidae |
Genus: | Tortulosa Gray, 1847 |
Type species | |
Pupa tortuosa Gray, 1825 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Tortulosa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupinidae.[2][1]
These snails are restricted to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.[3]