Allopeas

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Allopeas
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Allopeas gracile
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Subfamily: Subulininae
Genus: Allopeas
H. B. Baker, 1935 [1]
Type species
Bulimus gracilisT. Hutton, 1834
Synonyms [2]
  • Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882 [3]
  • Lamellaxis (Allopeas)H. B. Baker, 1935(original combination)

Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. [2]

Species

The genus Allopeas includes the following species:

Synonyms

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<i>Allopeas clavulinum</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Allopeas gracile</i> Species of gastropod

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References

  1. ↑ Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." Nautilus48(3): 84.
  2. 1 2 Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. . World Register of Marine Species , Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Strebel, H., & Pfeffer G.J. (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch.5: 109.
  4. ↑ "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  6. ↑ Naggs F. (1992). "Tortaxis Pilsbry, 1906 and Allopeas Baker, 1935 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation by the designation of a neotype for Achatina erecta Benson, 1842". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49: 258-260.
  7. ↑ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Witte V.; Janssen R.; Eppenstein A.; Maschwitz U. (2002). "Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae)". Insectes Sociaux . 49 (4): 301–305. doi:10.1007/PL00012646.
  9. ↑ "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.


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