Boreal top

The boreal top or boreal top snail (Zoogenetes harpa) is species of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Valloniidae, and the sole species in the genus Zoogenetes.[2][3][4][5] Z. harpa occurs in the United States and Canada.[6]

Boreal top snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Valloniidae
Genus:
Zoogenetes

Morse, 1864[1]
Species:
Z. harpa
Binomial name
Zoogenetes harpa
(Say, 1824)

References
  1. Morse E. S. 1864. Observations on the terrestrial Pulmonifera, including a catalogue of all species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca known to inhabit the state. Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History 1 (1): 1-63, Pl. I-II [= 1-2 ], 3-10.
  2. "Zoogenetes". Genus summary for Zoogenetes. AnimalBase. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  3. "Zoogenetes harpa". Species summary for Zoogenetes harpa. AnimalBase. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  4. Say T. 1824. Appendix. In: Keating W. H., editor. Narrative of an expedition to the source of the St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeck, Lake of the Woods, &c., &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of Stephan H. Long, major U.S.T.E., 2: 256. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea.
  5. "British Towns and Villages Network". Zoogenetes harpa on the British Database of World Flora and Fauna. British Towns and Villages Network. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  6. "Comprehensive Report Species - Zoogenetes harpa". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 13 November 2017.


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