Biology:Gerontia (gastropod)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Gerontia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Punctoidea
Family:	Charopidae
Genus:	Gerontia Hutton, 1882

Gerontia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae.

Species

Species within the genus Gerontia include:

• Gerontia pantherina, Hutton, 1882

References

• Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995

Wikidata ☰ Q19597286 entry