Tanychlamys

Tanychlamys
A live individual and an empty shell of Tanychlamys indica
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Subfamily: Macrochlamydinae
Genus: Tanychlamys
Benson, 1834
Type species
Helix vitrinoides Deshayes, 1831
Synonyms
List
  • Ariophanta (Macrochlamys) Gray, 1847
  • Helicarion (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836
  • Macrochlamys W. H. Benson, 1836
  • Macrochlamys (Euaustenia) Cockerell, 1891
  • Macrochlamys (Macrochlamys) Gray, 1847
  • Macrochlamys (Rhadella) Godwin-Austen, 1914
  • Nanina (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836
  • Nanina (Orobia) E. von Martens, 1860
  • Orobia E. von Martens, 1860
  • Stenopus (Macrochlamys) W. H. Benson, 1836

Tanychlamys is a large genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae.