Daedalochila: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Polygyridae
- Genus
- Daedalochila
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Daedalochila
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Daedalochila
Daedalochila is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.
These are small snails, only about 10 mm to 15 mm in diameter (or approximately one-half inch), notable for their elaborately convoluted apertures, with only very narrow openings. Their range is limited to the southern United States and northern Mexico.
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Daedalochila auriculata
- Daedalochila auriformis
- Daedalochila avara
- Daedalochila bisontes
- Daedalochila chisosensis
- Daedalochila delecta
- Daedalochila dorfeuilliana
- Daedalochila fatigiata
- Daedalochila hausmani
- Daedalochila hippocrepis
- Daedalochila idiogenes
- Daedalochila jacksonii
- Daedalochila leporina
- Daedalochila mooreana
- Daedalochila peninsulae
- Daedalochila peregrina
- Daedalochila plicata
- Daedalochila postelliana
- Daedalochila subclausa
- Daedalochila triodontoides
- Daedalochila troostiana
- Daedalochila uvulifera




























