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Chilina
Sign in to saveChilina is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Chilinoidea.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyChilinidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations74
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 142
- With media
- 35
- Family
- Chilinidae
- Collections
- AUM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, PRI, CAS, CM, UMMZ
- Recorded in
- Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Uruguay, Brazil
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Ecology
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Chilina is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Chilinoidea.
Chilina is the only genus in the family Chilinidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chilina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.