Classification

 

Domain: Eukarya
Fumonelix wetherbyi is classified as Eukarya because it's DNA is contained within a nucleus.

Kingdom: Animalia
Fumonelix wetherbyi is classified as being in the Animalia kingdom because it is multi-cellular and the cells of the organism lack a cell wall.

Phylum: Mollusca
Fumonelix wetherbyi is classified as part of the Phylum Mollusca because of the presence of a mantle (The mantle is a sheath of skin that folds around the soft body, the presence of a radula (a rasping organ used for scraping algae, drilling, or tearing into prey.) and they are un-segmented soft bodied animals.

Class: Gastropoda (stomach-foot)
Fumonelix wetherbyi is classified as a Gastropod by having the presence of a head, ventral muscular foot, and a dorsal ventral hump, most Gastropods are often housed in a hard calcareous shell.

Subclass: Pulmonata
Fumonelix wetherbyi  is classified as being part of the subclass Pulmonata because the gills have been replaced by a vascular lung, designed to take in oxygen from the air.

Order: Stylommatophora
Fumonelix wetherbyi is classified as being in the order of Stylommatophora because of the pair of retractable tentacles with eyes on the ends.

Family: Polygyridae
Fumonelix wetherbyi is classified as being a Polygyridae because the growth lines of the shell are regularly spaced and prominent, and also the aperture lip strongly reflected.

Genus: Fumonelix
In Latin, the prefix Fum- means smoke.

Species: Fumonelix wetherbyi

 All information obtained from (Burch, 1962), (Gillis, 2012)

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