Allopeas

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Allopeas
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Allopeas gracile
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Subfamily: Subulininae
Genus: Allopeas
H. B. Baker, 1935 [1]
Synonyms [ citation needed ]

Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882 [2]

Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. [3]

Species

The genus Allopeas includes the following species:

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

Allopeas clavulinum, common name the spike awlsnail, is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. This species is also known as Lamellaxis clavulinus.

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

Allopeas gracile, common name the graceful awlsnail, is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.

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References

  1. Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." Nautilus48(3): 84.
  2. Strebel, H., & Pfeffer G.J. (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch.5: 109.
  3. 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.
  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. "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  8. 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
  9. 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.