Merdigera

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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|image = Merdigera obscura.png

|image_caption = Left side view of a live Merdigera obscura.

|image2 = Merdigera-obscura 01.jpg

|image2_caption = Merdigera obscura shells

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|taxon = Merdigera

|authority = Held, 1838{{in lang|de}} Held F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns". Isis 1837(12): 902-919.

|type_species = Helix obscura

|type_species_authority = O. F. Müller, 1774

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Merdigera is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Merdigera Held, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996277 on 2021-07-12

Species

Species in this genus include:

  • Merdigera invisa Kijashko, 2006Kijashko P. V. (2006). "A new species of the genus Merdigera Held, 1837 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from Northwest Caucasus". Ruthenica 16(1/2): 89-91.
  • Merdigera obscura (Müller, 1774) - the type species of the genus Merdigera

References

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  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017