Stenotrema
| Stenotrema | |
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| A live individual of Stenotrema hirsutum | |
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| Three views of a shell of Stenotrema florida, with a close-up view of the periostracal "hairs" that are typical of the genus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
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Stenotrema Rafinesque, 1819 |
Stenotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae. These are typically small to medium-sized snails, with a velvety or hairy shell surface, and a narrow aperture which is usually closely guarded by well-developed "teeth".
The genus occurs throughout most of North America, from Alaska, though Canada and the United States, into Mexico.
Genus Stenotrema contains the following species and subspecies:
See Euchemotrema for other closely related taxa, many of which are sometimes placed in Stenotrema.
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