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Acavus
Sign in to saveAcavus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 71
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Acavidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM, UTEP, USNM, UMZC
- Recorded in
- Sri Lanka, Great Britain, Argentina, Spain, India
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Acavus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.
They belongs to group of tree snails that inhabited the ancient continent of Gondwana over 150 million years ago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acavus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.