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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vestia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
| Vestia | |
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| Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.383175 - Vestia (Vestia) gulo (Bielz, 1859) - Clausiliidae - Mollusc shell. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Clausiliinae |
| Tribe: | Baleini |
| Genus: | Vestia Hesse, 1916 |
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Paul Hesse named Vestia as a nomen novum for Uncinaria Vest, 1867, which was preoccupied by its senior homonym Uncinaria Frölich, 1789, a genus of nematode.[1]
Species:[2]
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