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| A live individual of Stenotrema hirsutum | |
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| Three views of a shell of Stenotrema florida, with a close-up view of the periostracal "hairs" that are typical of the genus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Genus: | Stenotrema Rafinesque, 1819 |
Stenotrema is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae. Members of this genus are known as slitmouths. These are typically small to medium-sized snails, with a velvety or hairy shell surface, and a narrow aperture which is usually closely guarded by well-developed "teeth".
Distribution
The genus occurs throughout most of North America, from Alaska, though Canada and the United States, into Mexico.
Species
Genus Stenotrema contains the following species and subspecies:
- Stenotrema altispira (Pilsbry, 1894) — Highland slitmouth
- Stenotrema angellum (Hubricht, 1958) — Kentucky slitmouth
- Stenotrema barbigerum (Redfield, 1856) — Fringed slitmouth
- Stenotrema blandianum (Pilsbry, 1903) — Missouri slitmouth
- Stenotrema brevipila (Clap, 1907) — Talladega slitmouth
- Stenotrema burringtoni (Grimm, 1971)
- Stenotrema calvescens (Hubricht, 1961) — Chattanooga slitmouth
- Stenotrema cohuttense (Clapp, 1914) — Cohutta slitmouth
- Stenotrema deceptum (Clapp, 1905) — Monte Sano slitmouth
- Stenotrema depilatum (Pilsbry, 1895) — Great Smoky slitmouth
- Stenotrema edgarianum (Lea, 1841) — Sequatchie slitmouth
- Stenotrema edvardsi (Bland, 1856) — Ridge-and-valley slitmouth
- Stenotrema exodon (Pilsbry, 1900) — Alabama slitmouth
- Stenotrema exodon turbinella (Clench & Archer, 1933)
- Stenotrema florida (Pilsbry, 1940) — Apalachicola slitmouth
- Stenotrema hirsutum (Say, 1817) — Hairy slitmouth
- Stenotrema hirsutum barbatum (Clapp, 1904)
- Stenotrema hubrichti Pilsbry, 1940 / Euchemotrema hubrichti (Pilsbry, 1940) — Carinate pillsnail
- Stenotrema labrosum (Bland 1862) — Ozark slitmouth
- Stenotrema magnifumosum (Pilsbry, 1900) — Appalachian slitmouth
- Stenotrema maxillatum (Gould, 1848) — Ridge-lip slitmouth
- Stenotrema pilsbryi (Ferriss, 1900) — Rich Mountain Slitmouth
- Stenotrema pilula (Pilsbry, 1900) — Pygmy slitmouth
- Stenotrema simile (Grimm, 1971) — Bear Creek slitmouth
- Stenotrema spinosum (Lea, 1830) — Carinate slitmouth
- Stenotrema stenotrema (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Stenotrema unciferum (Pilsbry, 1900) — Ouachita slitmouth
- Stenotrema unciferum caddoense (Archer, 1935)
- Stenotrema waldense (Archer, 1938) — Doaks Creek slitmouth
See Euchemotrema for other closely related taxa, many of which are sometimes placed in Stenotrema.
References
- Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse 136 ; Rafinesque C. S. (1819). Journ. de Physique 88: 425.
- ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 639-688.
- Stenotrema at ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System); accessed 11 Jan. 2008.
- Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Stenotrema hubrichti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T20767A9230327. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T20767A9230327.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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| Stenotrema | |