Libera (gastropod)

clade Euthyneuraclade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora Libera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Endodontidae.

[2] Originally the genus Libera was placed within the family Charopidae.

[3] Species in the genus Libera include:[2] The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881.

Garrett's type description reads as follows:[3] Shell small, widely umbilicated, umbilicus (in adults) strongly constricted so as to form a cavernous or pouch-like cavity; whorls 7-9, costulate or striate, last one angulata or carinate, rarely rounded; aperture subrhomboidal or securiform; peristome thin, simple, straight; parietal region with one or two, and the palate with (rarely without) two or three, internal laminae; columella emarginate and furnished with a spiral fold.These snails lay their eggs into the umbilicus of their own shells.

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