Chilonopsis

Chilonopsis
Chilonopsis nonpareil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Subfamily:	Petriolinae
Genus:	† Chilonopsis Fischer de Waldheim, 1848 [1]

Chilonopsis is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae. All species were found on Saint Helena ^[2]

Species

Ten species, including one disputed, have been described. However, most of these species are only known from subfossil remains, and only two species, namely Chilonopsis turtoni and Chilonopsis melanoides, are known to have survived into modern times. ^[3]

Species within the genus Chilonopsis include:

• Chilonopsis blofeldi
• Chilonopsis exulatus
• Chilonopsis helena
• Chilonopsis melanoides
• Chilonopsis nonpareil
• Chilonopsis subplicatus
• Chilonopsis subtruncatus
• Chilonopsis turtoni

References

1. Fischer de Waldheim (1848). Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou21(1): 233, 236.
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. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/3007