Ancotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Haplotrematidae.

Ancotrema
Ancotrema sportella ssp. sportella
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Ancotrema

H. B. Baker, 1931[1]

This genus is sometimes considered to be a subgenus of Haplotrema. Haplotrema and Ancotrema cannot be distinguished only on the basis of their shells, but can be distinguished on the basis of their detailed internal anatomy.[2]

The genus Ancotrema contains the following species:[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Baker, Horace B. 1931. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 82: 405-409.
  2. ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 2(1): 225-230.
  3. ^ [1] Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database
  4. ^ [2] Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online).